War quotes

“Ever since I was a kid I've wanted this, I've wanted to serve my country, and I want to go. I want to go to Vietnam, and I'll die there if I have to.”
Tom Cruise - Ron Kovic

“I was a field surgeon during the war. We'd work long hours. We'd eat while we operated. One time, there's this young soldier I was trying to save, he took a cannonball in the stomach. After 18 hours of surgery, I did it. Never felt better in my life. Until, just like that, the patient dies. Turns out I left half a bologna sandwich in his lung.”
Richard Lewis - Phil Taylor

“I heard you in here, reciting that same old stuff. Making more iron men, more young heroes. You still think it's beautiful and sweet to die for your country, don't you?”

Lew Ayres - Paul

“I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war.”

Kjell Nilsson - The Humungus

“- Samuel: I'll bring you back the kaiser's helmet.
- Colonel Ludlow: Bring yourself back. That'd please me more.”

Henry Thomas - Samuel Ludlow
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Col. William Ludlow

“I'm going to do something now they used to do in Vietnam. It's called making a head on a stick.”
John Jarratt - Mick Taylor

“- Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: Thank you.
- Staff Sgt. Sykes: Don't thank me, just don't fuckin' die.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford
Jamie Foxx - Staff Sgt. Sykes

“Even fake wars have casualties.”
Isaiah Washington - Mac

“The hard part about playing chicken is knowin' when to flinch.”
Scott Glenn - Bart Mancuso

“- Pvt. Trip: What's the point? Ain't nobody gonna win. It's just gonna go on and on.
- Col. Robert Gould Shaw: Can't go on forever.
- Pvt. Trip: Yeah, but ain't nobody gonna win, sir.
- Col. Robert Gould Shaw: Somebody's gonna win.
- Pvt. Trip: Who? I mean, you get to go on back to Boston, big house and all that. What about us? What do we get?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)

Denzel Washington - Pvt. Trip
Matthew Broderick - Col. Robert Gould Shaw

“This is a war, and people on all sides die.”
Marton Csokas - Trevor Goodchild

“It is settled. We are to war with France. Now... I can go play.”
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - King Henry VIII

“To the United States Navy, our thanks for making this picture possible. To the gallant officers and men of the silent service, to our submarines on war patrol in hostile waters, good luck, and... good hunting!”
Lou Marcelle - Narrator

“Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary - The American Navy. For forty years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game and played it well. But today the game is different. We have the advantage.”
Sir Sean Connery - Marko Ramius

“It was there, in the war-torn country side amidst the fighting between government troops and the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, that I met my guide and interpreter, Dith Pran, a man who was to change my life in a country I grew to love and pity.”

Sam Waterston - Sydney Schanberg

“What do you know about this nation? Don't you ever give a second thought to American citizens? You're the reason their money's worthless. You're the reason old people are eating out of garbage cans, and kids get killed in bullshit wars.”

George C. Scott - Barney Caine

“- Conrad Brean: If Kissinger can win the Peace Prize, I wouldn't be surprised to wake up and find out I'd won the Preakness.
- Stanley Motss: Yes but, our guy did bring peace.
- Conrad Brean: But there wasn't a war.
- Stanley Motss: All the greater accomplishment.”
Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean
Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss

“- Magneto: You know this plastic prison of theirs won't hold me forever. The war is still coming. And I intend to fight it, by any means necessary.
- Professor Charles Xavier: And I will always be there, old friend.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto
Sir Patrick Stewart - Professor Charles Xavier

“That's Vietnam music. Can't we get our own music?”

Jake Gyllenhaal - Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford

“- Eriksson: Give me a minute on this thing we're doing. I mean, what we're doing. What are we doing, sarge?
- Sgt. Tony Meserve: We have a VC suspect. Is that what you mean? She's a VC whore and we're gonna have fun with her.
- Eriksson: She's just a farm girl.”
Michael J. Fox - Eriksson
Sean Penn - Sgt. Tony Meserve

“War's terrible. It's meant to be terrible, and if it stops being terrible, what's going to stop us?”

Josh Lucas - Lt. Ben Gannon

“- Le captaine von Rauffenstein: I don't know who will win this war, but whatever the outcome, it will mean the end of the Rauffensteins and the Boeldieus.
- Le captaine de Boeldieu: We're no longer needed.”
Erich von Stroheim - Le captaine von Rauffenstein
Pierre Fresnay - Le captaine de Boeldieu

“Well, excuse me, did I say anybody could leave before the battle is over, did I?”
Dennis Hopper - Deacon

“There's no peace at the end of this no matter what you believe. You know this is true.”

Eric Bana - Avner

“- Captain Miller: Do you know how many men I've lost under my command?
- Sergeant Horvath: How many?
- Captain Miller: Ninety-four. But that means I've saved the lives of ten times that many, doesn't it? Maybe even 20, right? Twenty times as many? And that's how simple it is. That's how you... that's how you rationalize making the choice between...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Captain Miller
Tom Sizemore - Sergeant Horvath