“You know what the difference between you and me is? We both do the same thing. You just do it for a country, so you don't have to admit you like it.”

Adrien Brody - Royce

“It's nice to have things in your life that are important. But to do the things you want to do, you have to do things you don't want to do.”
Donna Dixon - Tiffany

“- Joseph Palmi: Let me ask you something... we Italians, we got our families, and we got the church; the Irish, they have the homeland, Jews their tradition; even the niggers, they got their music. What about your people, Mr. Wilson, what do you have?
- Edward Wilson: The United States of America. The rest of you are just visiting.”
Joe Pesci - Joseph Palmi
Matt Damon - Edward Wilson

“- Williamson: The South Vietnamese want to establish a country with values similar to our own. I think we ought to help.
- Shipboard Journalist: And what values are those?
- Williamson: Freedom, the right to think for yourself, follow your own faith - you know, individual freedom.”
Michael Moriarty - Williamson
D. Paul Thomas - Shipboard Journalist

“The French values are so different from American values.”
Adrian Lyne