Army quotes

“I am here for all those voices which cannot be heard: mothers, daughters, fathers, sons, three hundred families that bleed for our rights. We must send the entire Spartan army to aid our king in the preservation of not just ourselves, but of our children. Send the army for the preservation of liberty. Send it for justice. Send it for law and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lena Headey - Queen Gorgo

“Remember the story of Icarus, whose father gave him wings of wax. Warned him not to fly too close to the sun. But the exhilaration was too great. So he flew higher and higher, until the sun melted his wings, and he fell into the sea. The US Army is not an irresponsible father. So they gave us wings of hot Pennsylvania steel, guaranteed not to melt.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Preston Packard

“- Colonel Isaac Johnson: You've got nothing on me. I'm covered. Call the Joint Chief.
- Attorney General Russert: That won't be necessary, Colonel, as I have already received no less than a dozen calls from highly-ranked and powerfully-placed individuals telling me to let you go. But the joy of checks and balances in our government is that I can...” (continue)(continue reading)
Danny Glover - Colonel Isaac Johnson
Brian Markinson - Attorney General Russert

“We're not Watusi. We're not Spartans. We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts!”

Bill Murray - John

“God is going to have to answer to His maker for this part of the country.”

Harry Ruby

“- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: Welcome to the Army, Norm!
- Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis: You did good. Best job I ever had!
- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: Best job I ever had!”
Shia LaBoeuf - Boyd 'Bible' Swan
Jon Bernthal - Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis

“I been pumping pussy since Christ was a corporal. I can tell you, the best damned poontang I ever paid for was in Da Nang. The girls were checked out daily. And we got ourself laid in a safe, orderly, proficient, military manner. That is until some suckhead writes home mama and says he dipped his wick in the Republic of South Vietnam. Then the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“I was just protecting my guys, they were trying to kill... our soldiers and I... I'm willing to meet my Creator and answer for every shot that I took.”
Bradley Cooper - Chris Kyle

“There are four types of people who join the military. For some, it's a family trade. Others are patriots, eager to serve. Next, you have those who just need a job. Then there's the kind who want a legal means of killing other people.”
Tom Cruise - Jack Reacher

“They are now face-to-face with the most fearsome military machine in the history of man, and I intend to use it and be back on base in time for the playoffs.”

Bruce Willis - General William Devereaux

“- Major General Thomas F. Waverly: I got along very well in the Army without you.
- Emma Allen: It took 15,000 men to take my place.”
Dean Jagger - Major General Thomas F. Waverly
Mary Wickes - Emma Allen

“- Bill Rago: Write why you're here.
- Pvt. Donnie Benitez: This is where they told us to be.
- Bill Rago: No, no. Write about the magical twist of fate that prompted you to gravitate towards this institute of imbeciles.
- Pvt. Jamaal Montgomery: What?
- Bill Rago: Write why you joined the Army!”
Danny DeVito - Bill Rago
Lillo Brancato - Pvt. Donnie Benitez
Kadeem Hardison - Pvt. Jamaal Montgomery

“There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
Edward James Olmos - Admiral William Adama

“We are here for something new, this has not happened much, in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground, all of it, not divided by a line between slave states and free - all the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jeff Daniels - Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

“Sit, adjust, pray, attack.”

Richard Tiffany Gere - Zack Mayo

“- Hodges: You ever had a pissed-off Marine on your ass?
- Sokal: Is that a threat?
- Hodges: Oh, yes, sir.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Hodges
Bruce Greenwood - Sokal

“- Sgt. Emil Foley: You can forget it! You're out!
- Zack Mayo: Don't you do it! Don't! You... I got nowhere else to go! I got nowhere else to… I got nothin' else.”
Louis Gossett Jr. - Sgt. Emil Foley
Richard Tiffany Gere - Zack Mayo

- Recruiter: Now, are either of you homosexuals?
- John: You mean, like, flaming, or...
- Recruiter: Well, it's a standard question we have to ask.
- Russell: No, we're not homosexual, but we are willing to learn.
- John: Yeah, would they send us someplace special?
- Recruiter: I guess that's "no" on both. Now if you could just give Uncle Sam... (continue)(continue reading)

William Lucking - Recruiter
Bill Murray - John
Harold Ramis - Russell

“Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.”
Adam Driver

“- Maj. Henrich Prinz: You Americans, you always have so much of everything. No matter. Eventually you have to surrender.
- Lt. Leak: I don't think so.”
Joachim Paul Assböck - Maj. Henrich Prinz
Jay Rodan - Lt. Leak

“I like sub commanders. They have no time for bullshit, and neither do I.”
Jon Voight - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“If I were going to be careful, I'd have joined the Coast Guard.”
Paul Sanchez - Ramos

“Paco-So that kid was throwing water balloons at cars that were driving by. Then an army jeep drove by, the kid throws a balloon at it, the soldier gets mad, he gets out and shoots him.
Cleo-Oh God! Is he OK?
Paco-He shot him in the head. He's dead.
Cleo-How awful!”
Yalitza Aparicio - Cleo
Carlos Peralta - Paco

“Mulan-It’s beautiful.
Zhou-Beautiful tool, for terrible work.”

Yifei Liu - Mulan
Tzi Ma - Zhou

“- Lieutenant Joyce: I'm sorry, Sir. I thought you were the enemy.
- Commander Shears: Well, I'm an American, if that's what you mean.”
Geoffrey Horne - Lieutenant Joyce
William M. Holden - Shears