- William "Billy" Tepper: They're going to shoot five kids if I don't go back.
- Military Officer: They're going to shoot you if you do go back.
Sean Astin - Billy Tepper

“If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.”
Heath Ledger

“- Bruno Sauer: I can't help it. I don't dare to risk anything. My home, my family, you. I'm very much in love with you, Hedy.
- Mrs. Sauer: You've chosen the wrong way to keep me. I'd risk all this, all of it. It's no use to me now, because I've lost my respect for you. It's a shame. It shouldn't have happened.”

George Macready - Bruno Sauer
Katherine Locke - Mrs. Sauer

“Shadow and Sassy had risked their lives for me. I never knew I'd have friends like that; the feeling was all very new to me... I liked it.”

Michael J. Fox - Chance

“- Mitch Leary: Watching the President, I couldn't help wondering why a man like you would risk his life to save a man like that. You have such a strange job - I can't decide if it's heroic or absurd.
- Frank Horrigan: Why would a man like you want to risk his life to kill a man like that?”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan