“- April Mercedes: Can I ask you a personal question?
- Walt Tenor: Nine inches.”
Eva Mendes - April Mercedes
Greg Kinnear - Walt Tenor

“- Lucien Cordier: Do you know the question no one can answer? The big question?
- George Le Peron: Go ahead.
- Lucien Cordier: When you scratch your balls, is it 'cause they itch, or 'cause it feels good?”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Jean-Pierre Marielle - L'adjudant Georges Le Peron

- David Langley: Kevin, you know how sometimes you ask me questions that I can't answer.
- Kevin Langley: Yeah, like "What is an intrauterine device?".
- David Langley: I think more like "What's the meaning of life?".
- Kevin Langley: I never asked you that.
Peter MacNicol - David Langley
Andrew Lawrence - Kevin Langley

- Marie: Mister, what does it mean... when a man "crashes out"?
- Healy: Crashes out? That's a funny question for you to ask now, Sister. It means he's free.

Ida Lupino - Marie
Jerome Cowan - Healy

“Why in all conscience should these be the ones to suffer? Children, old people, a young girl at the height of her loveliness. Why these? Are these our soldiers? Are these our fighters? Why should they be sacrificed?”
Henry Wilcoxon - Vicar