“- Seaman Bill Wentz, Radioman: Mister Tyler, please... don't tell the other guys I'm half German. They'll hate me.
- Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Yeah, sure thing, Wentz.”
Jack Noseworthy - Seaman Bill Wentz
Matthew McConaughey - Lt. Andrew Tyler

“No one that you ever knew, or loved, or who loved you, or anyone who was ever anything to you that made you think that they might be as real as you are, ever proved that all six billion of the rest of us aren't all in it together against you.”
Seth Green - Douglas

- Bruce Pandolfini: Do you know what it means to have "contempt" for your opponent?
- Josh: No.
- Bruce Pandolfini: It means to hate them. You have to hate them Josh, they hate you.
- Josh: But I don't hate them.
- Bruce Pandolfini: Well you'd better start.
Ben Kingsley - Bruce Pandolfini
Max Pomeranc - Josh Waitzkin

“- Cavalry scout: He had a brush with them last night. Says they're being stirred up by Geronimo.
- Capt. Sickel: Geronimo? How do we know he isn't lying?
- Cavalry scout: No, he's a Cheyenne. They hate Apaches worse than we do.”

Yakima Canutt - Cavalry scout
Walter McGrail - Capt. Sickel

“- Mary Todd Lincoln: Stephen Douglas has arrived. Listen to them cheering for him!
- Abe Lincoln: They ought to cheer. He paid them enough for it.”

Ruth Gordon - Mary Todd Lincoln
Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln