“There's a special excitement in playing a man who made a hole in history large enough to be remembered centuries after he died.”
Charlton Hesto

“- Lewis Nixon: Sobel's a genius. I had a headmaster in prep school who was just like him. I know the type.
- Richard D. Winters: Lew, Michaelangelo's a genius. Beethoven's a genius.
- Lewis Nixon: You know a man in this company who wouldn't double-time Currahee with a full pack, just to piss in that man's morning coffee?”
Ron Livingston - Lewis Nixon
Richard D. Winters - Himself

“- Moira: Arnold tells me you're a genius.
- Romulus: At what?
- Moira: Music.
- Romulus: Oh - is that all?
- Moira: Why, is there more?
Romulus: Well, I can put a lit match in my mouth, and when the lights are out I look like a jack-o-lantern.”
Ann Magnuson - Moira
Samuel L. Jackson - Romulus

“I'm a genius, not an engineer.”
Jeremy Irons - Aramis

- Eugene Martone: Listen, I know I'm not Robert Johnson, I...
- Willie Brown: No, you ain’t! You ain't even the beginning of a pimple on the "Late Great" Robert Johnson's ass! You might have a little bit of lightning in you, but you're missing everything else.
Ralph Macchio - Eugene Martone
Joe Seneca - Willie Brown