Soldiers quotes

“- Gene Watson: There's a little girl in a van. She's my daughter.
- Mr. Huey: I'm a little deaf in this ear. I mean, between that and my wooden leg, I'm all messed up. Compliments of the United States Army artillery corps.”

Johnny Depp - Gene Watson
Charles S. Dutton - Huey

“- Gen. Dolgorucki: Why are you not in uniform?
- Lev Andreyev: My lungs are weak.
- Gen. Dolgorucki: Perhaps it is your courage that is weak.”
Emil Jannings - Gen. Dolgorucki
William Powell - Lev Andreyev

“- John Ashwood II as a Young Man: Tell me how they look, mother. Tell me how they march. Do you see them yet?
- Susan Ashwood: Yes, John, I see them. Your people and my people. Only their uniforms are different. How well, they march, John. How well they march together.”

Peter Lawford - John Ashwood II as a Young Man
Irene Dunne - Susan Ashwood

“- Seaman Jones: COB, we don't have time for sea stories. I was just teaching Seaman Beaumont, here, the intracacies of modern sonar, now...
- Watson: Yea, and I ain't Chief Of the Boat, I'm actually Sheena, queen of the jungle!”
Courtney B. Vance - Seaman Jones
Larry Ferguson - Chief of the Boat

“- Teela: What are you doing here?
- Duncan: An old soldier learns to follow his nose.
- Teela: Father, you're always hungry.
- Duncan: I'm not always hungry! During the Siege of Crim, I went for thirty days...
- Teela: ...without rations.”
Chelsea Field - Teela
Jon Cypher - Duncan (Man-at-Arms)

“- Gil Mars: Now these guys are soldiers, right? And what do soldiers need?
- Irwin Wayfair: Hats?”
Denis Colin Leary - Gil Mars
David Cross - Irwin Wayfair

“- Megan: Tell me. Honestly, what are our chances?
- Pvt. Cooper: Morale seems good, considering. But that will only last as long as the ammunition holds out. Although high spirits are just no substitute for eight hundred rounds a minute, but I don't think that's what you wanted to hear.”
Emma Cleasby - Megan
Kevin McKidd - Pvt. Cooper

“Within the Cheyenne tribe there used to be a military society made up of the strongest and bravest men. They were fierce fighters - unyielding. They called themselves Chotometnea - dogmen.”
Barbara Hershey - Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan

“- Arius: Mr. Bennett, my soldiers are patriots.
- Bennett: Your soldiers are nothing. Matrix and I can kill every single one of them... in the blink of an eye. Remember that.”
Dan Hedaya - Arius
Vernon Wells - Bennett

“The guy's a real Marine, dad. I mean, if they can do this to him, just hang him out to dry, they... they can do it to anybody. Forget that he's my friend, they can do it to anybody. And that means, that your medals and your citations won't mean jack shit when they come after you.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Hodges

“This whole goddamn program is off the shelf. Do you really think for one second those wimps at the Pentagon... would allow the regeneration of dead soldiers, American soldiers?”

Ed O'Ross - Colonel Perry

“Each would have an epitaph. He died for his country because he didn't fucking listen!”

Gregory Hines - Colonel Jim McQuade

“I don't know what they've told you down at the USO, but you're going to be meeting a lot of strange men. Men in uniform. Boys a long way from home, lonely, desperate. They really have one thing on their minds. Show 'em a good time.”

Ned Beatty - Ward Douglas

“- Sgt. Maj. Mulcahy: Left! Right! Left! [to Pvt. Jupiter Sharts] What the hell are you doing, boy? Don't you know your right from your left?
- Pvt. Jupiter Sharts: N-n-no, sah.
- Sgt. Maj. Mulcahy: No? How many here do not know right from left? [half a dozen hands are raised. Mutters] Jesus have pity.”
John Finn - Sgt. Maj. Mulcahy
Jihmi Kennedy - Pvt. Jupiter Sharts

“- Pvt. David Manning: Why do they leave them there like that?
- Medic Chamberlain: Fucking brass. They don't wanna waste the trucks on the dead, they still got more guys to haul in for the slaughter.
- Pvt. David Manning: No more room in hell.”

Ron Eldard - Manning
Frank Whaley - Chamberlain - Medic

- Velma Dinkley: "Property of Colonel Jackson T. Pettigrew, 8th Louisiana". That sounds like a Civil War regiment.
- Simone Lenoir: There were Confederate barracks on this island.
- Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers: Like... ghost pirates, ghost soldiers, what could be next?

B.J. Ward - Velma Dinkley
Adrienne Barbeau - Simone Lenoir
Billy West - Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers

“I am the French Lieutenant's... whore.”
Meryl Streep - Sarah

“This is not a drill, soldier. We clear on that? This is a live project. You are go. Training is over. Training is over.”
Chris Cooper - Conklin

“- Captain: Phillip, the old bunch is gone. Look at these new heroes. All wind and smoke. Just big mouths.
- Thomsen: Yeah, yeah. They keep together, balls in hand. And the belief in our Führer in their eyes.
- Captain: They will know in time.”
Jürgen Prochnow - Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock - Der Alte
Otto Sander - Phillip Thomsen

“- Annabelle's Brother: Fort Sumter has been fired upon.
- Annabelle's Father: Then the war is here.
- Annabelle's Brother: Yes, dad, and I'm going to be one of the first to enlist.”
Frank Barnes - Annabelle's Brother
Charles Henry Smith - Annabelle's Father

“They say in Germany when you die as a soldier you are honored. That's something, isn't it? Siberia? Not for me. I'm cold enough.”
Dominique Horwitz - Fritz Reiser

“- Maj. Reisman: Which one of you guys wants to be a general? Pinkley?
- Vernon Pinkley: What kind of general, sir?
- Maj. Reisman: Just a plain, ordinary, every day, home-lovin' American general.
- Vernon Pinkley: I'd rather be a civilian, sir.”
Lee Marvin - Maj. John Reisman
Donald Sutherland - Vernon Pinkley

“- Col. Winter: Tell me, Mr. Yates, how does a man like you get into West Point?
- Yates: My father was a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, sir.
- Col. Winter: Oh, right. Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree.”
James Gandolfini - Col. Winter
Mark Ruffalo - Yates

“I make soldiers out of scum like you, and I don't do it gently. You're the sloppiest looking lot I've ever seen. It's up to me to prevent you from becoming a disgrace to the Regiment. And I will prevent that if I have to kill half of you with work. But the half that lives will be soldiers. I promise you!”

Brian Donlevy - Markoff

“My name's McCoy. I'm a soldier. Least I was up until about a year ago. Ran outta wars.”
Amy Madigan - McCoy