“The Vietnamese... we worked with them, made something, something out of nothing... we want to stay here because it's ours, it belongs to us. It keeps our family together. I mean, we fought for that. While you Americans... you are fighting for the biggest nothing in history!”

Christian Marquand - Hubert de Marais

“- Alex Steiner: Rudy! What are you doing?
- Rudy Steiner: Nothing papa!
- Alex Steiner: Then get to school!”
Oliver Stokowski - Alex Steiner
Nico Liersch - Rudy Steiner

“- Cameron Dove: What are you looking at?
- Seth Dove: Nothing.
- Cameron Dove: Doesn't look like nothing.”
Viggo Mortensen - Cameron Dove
Jeremy Cooper - Seth Dove

“You saved me. You redeemed me from the pit. I was in it, Emily. I was in that ultimate moment of terror that is the beginning of life. It is nothing. Simple, hideous nothing. The final truth of all things is that there is no final truth. Truth is what's transitory. It's human life that is real.”

William Hurt - Eddie Jessup

“- Dragline: Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me with nothin'.
- Luke: Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.”

George Kennedy - Dragline
Paul Newman - Luke