“- Russell: Where do you think you're going? Are you going AWOL? Are you going AWOL?
- John: No, I'm deserting.
- Russell: You idiot! You desert now, it's a federal offense!
- John: I'll take my chances with the feds!”

Harold Ramis - Russell
Bill Murray - John

“- Phil Davis: We wouldn't be any good as generals.
- Major General Thomas F. Waverly: You weren't any good as privates.”
Dean Jagger - Major General Thomas F. Waverly

“- Col. Everett Dasher Breed: What's your name, soldier?
- Vernon Pinkley: Number two, Sir!”
Robert Ryan - Col. Everett Dasher Breed
Donald Sutherland - Vernon Pinkley

“- Lt. George C. Rice: Looks like you guys are going to be surrounded.
- Richard Winters: We're paratroopers, Lieutenant. We're supposed to be surrounded.”
Jimmy Fallon - Lt. George C. Rice
Richard D. Winters - Himself

“My name's Gunnery Sergeant Highway and I've drunk more beer and banged more quiff and pissed more blood and stomped more ass that all of you numbnuts put together. Now Major Powers has put me in charge of this reconisence platoon.”
Clint Eastwood - Highway