“Surrender's for wimps! I vote we die!”
Eli Wallach - Leon B. Little

“You're an idealist, just like your grandfather. Do yourself a favor, don't be like him. For once, do the smart thing.”

James Garner - Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke

“Idealists are such a problem. You can't convince them there's no such thing as the ideal.”
Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“- David Drumlin: I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world.
- Ellie Arroway: Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it.”
Tom Skerritt - David Drumlin
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“- Queen Isabella I.: I thought he was an idealist.
- Duenna: Idealism and ambition are not incompatible.”

Sigourney Weaver - Queen Isabel of Castille
Isabel Prinz - Duenna