“- 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

“It is the sworn duty of all officers to try to escape.”
James Donald - Ramsey 'The SBO'

“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