“People can be who they want to be, as long as they're willing to work.”
Kristin Minter - Kathy

“With so many fine young men and women from all corners of the Earth, all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.”

Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“You have a gift for language, Mr. Riley. But talent is a common thing. People waste it every day. They abuse it. They take it for granted. Success comes not from what God has given you but what you do with it. It's really up to you.”
Francesca P. Roberts - Miss Higgins

“You can dream of a moment for years and still somehow miss it when it comes. You've got to reach through the flames and take it, or lose it forever. I took it. So did my mother. We never looked back.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Toby

“- Kathryn: Why are you so hard on me?
- Andie: Because someday, you're goin' up. But the only way that will happen is if you have every drill here down better than everyone else. There's no room for mistakes. Every 'i' dotted, every 't' crossed. That's the way I learned it. That's the way you'll learn it. You copy?
- Kathryn: I copy.”
Lea Thompson - Kathryn Fairly
Kate Capshaw - Andie Bergstrom