“- Pvt. Trip: I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.
- Pvt. Jupiter Sharts: What ya doin' since then?
- Pvt. Trip: I run for President. [laughter] I didn't win though.”
Denzel Washington - Pvt. Trip
Jihmi Kennedy - Pvt. Jupiter Sharts

“- John Connolly: He was very good to me when I was little, Marianne, that's all you need to know.
- Marianne Connolly: [sarcastically] How was he good to you, John? Did he take you trick-or-treating?”

Joel Edgerton - John Connolly
Julianne Nicholson - Marianne Connolly

“I'd rather face a tiger any day than the sort of things the critics said about your last book.”

Rosalind Russell - Mrs. Howard Fowler - Sylvia

“- George M. Cohan: It'll be great as long as those critics don't start to eat off my leg.
- Sam Harris: Don't worry about the critics! You got a smash hit! It's in the air, kid! It's in the air! You can't stop anything that's in the air!”
James Cagney - George M. Cohan
Richard Whorf - Sam Harris

“The critics? No, I have nothing but compassion for them. How can I hate the crippled, the mentally deficient, and the dead?”
Albert Finney - Sir