Soldiers quotes

“- Lt. Joe Rossi: They're taking them kind of young these days, ain't they?
- Ensign Wright: We're getting them young, Mr. Rossi, we're not taking them. Those boys all volunteered for this duty.”

Humphrey Bogart - Lt. Joe Rossi
Kane Richmond - Ensign Wright

“- Young Soldier: A bit tight under the arms, don't you think?
- Guy Singer: Traditional fit, sir. One can't raise one's hands above one's head. It tends to inhibit any impulsive acts of surrender.”

Cameron Anderson - Young Soldier
James Faulkner - Guy Singer

“- James Bond: You saved my life?
- Pam Bouvier: Yes!
- James Bond: It's a tough business you picked, Miss Bouvier. Leave it to the professionals!
- Pam Bouvier: Look, pal, I was an Army pilot! I have flown to the toughest hell-holes in South America and I will not have you lecture me about professionalism!”
Timothy Dalton - James Bond
Carey Lowell - Pam Bouvier

“You are deluded, Captain. You pretend to be a simple soldier, but in reality you are just afraid to admit that we have left humanity behind.”
Hugo Weaving - Red Skull

“We call this friendly fire, friendly fucking, or getting friendly fucked.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford

“Those Sicilian women cooked us a terrific meal. I'ts too bad they were all over fifty. We were more horny than we were hungry.”
Robert Carradine - Pvt. Zab - 1st Squad

“There's no bond as strong as that shared by men who have faced death in battle. You men seem to have a strong sense of loyalty, because you're thought of as criminals, because of Vietnam. You know why? Because you lost. And in this country, that's like going bankrupt. You're out of business. They want to forget about you. You cost too much, and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Hackman - Col. Jason Rhodes

“I already gave them my word. I told them I'd bring them all home to their mothers, which means I already lied to half of them. Can't lie to the rest.”

Barry Pepper - Mike Strank

“I loathe deliberate cruelty because I'm a soldier, not a sadist.”
G.D. Spradlin - Gen. Bentley Durrell

“For the lawyer as well as the soldier, there is an equally imperative command. That duty is to shelter from injustice the innocent, to protect the weak from oppression, and when necessity demands, to rally to the defense of those being wronged.”
James McAvoy - Frederick Aiken

“- Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: What about freedom of speech? The Constitution?
- Staff Sgt. Sykes: You don't have any rights. You got any complaints you complain to Saddam Insane. You are a marine. There is no such thing as speech that is free. You must pay for everything that you say.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford
Jamie Foxx - Staff Sgt. Sykes

“Your job is not to think. It is to follow orders, to execute plans and to be a good soldier. You're a goddamn great soldier because you leave the planning and fixing to me.”

Brendan Gleeson - Jack Van Meter

“I'm not a mercenary. Nobody pays me. And if I feel someone one owes me, I take it.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Kalidor

“I'm a soldier. My duty is to fight. I'm willing to die on every battlefield.”
Maurice Chevalier - Danilo

“- Cole: Why are you here?
- Jake Huard: To serve my country, sir.”
Tyrese Gibson - Cole

“You see, when... when you end up killing one of your men, you see, you tell yourself it happened so you could save the lives of two or three or ten others. Maybe a hundred others.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller

“- Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura: Ito, take a landing party ashore and determine our position!
- Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt: Captain, you are insane.
- Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura: These men are the descendants of Ninja Assassins. They will find Hollywood!”
Toshirō Mifune - Cmdr. Akiro Mitamura
Sir Christopher Lee - Capt. Wolfgang von Kleinschmidt

“I know how you're feeling. You lost two men in Berlin and you want it to mean something, but nothing Bourne gives you will bring your men back. Nothing in those files makes their sacrifice worthwile. You have to let go. We're professionals, when an operation goes bad, we tie it off.”

Brian Cox - Ward Abbott

“There's something wrong with us, something very, very wrong with us. Something seriously wrong with us - we're soldiers. But we're American soldiers!”

Bill Murray - John

“You are all under arrest, you're getting court-martialed and you're gonna show us that bullion.”
Mykelti Williamson - Colonel Horn

“- Pvt. Caparzo: Where are we going?
- Sergeant Horvath: You're going to be sent home wrapped in an American flag with a hunk of cheese in your ass, Caparzo, you smart-ass.”
Vin Diesel - Private Caparzo
Tom Sizemore - Sergeant Horvath

“I am surprised to learn that the word Samurai means, 'to serve', and that Katsumoto believes his rebellion to be in the service of the Emperor.”

Tom Cruise - Nathan Algren

“- Jones: Jesus Christ, they're killing wounded!
- Cpl. Joseph L. DiNardo: Don't tell me you feel sorry for them sergeant.
- Jones: There're soldiers just like us, wounded!”

Albert Popwell - Jones
Wings Hauser - Cpl. Joseph L. DiNardo

“- Alpa Chino - Hot LZ: Yeah... but those dudes was trained soldiers.
- Kirk Lazarus: [cocks unloaded pistol] Yeah! And we trained actors, mothafucka! Time to man up. And I ain't gonna sugarcoat. Some of us might not even make it back.
- Jeff Portnoy - Hot LZ: What do you mean? Like, not on the same flight?”
Brandon T. Jackson - Alpa Chino - Hot LZ
Robert Downey Jr. - Kirk Lazarus
Jack Black - Jeff Portnoy - Hot LZ

“When the SAS is called upon to do what we're trained to do, we have been likened to a surgeon cutting out a cancer. It's a filthy and difficult job. We don't like doing it, but it's our duty.”
Tony Doyle - Colonel Hadley