Top 50 Quotes From Ivan Dixon

Kinchloe: [after Schultz left after telling Hogan that Klink wants to see him] You're not still going, are you, Colonel?
Col. Hogan: That's the plan, isn't it?
Kinchloe: You know Klink. If you don't come to him, he'll come to you.
Col. Hogan: I know. Corporal Newkirk?
Newkirk: Sir?
Col. Hogan: As of now, you're a Colonel.

Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: [about the Gestapo] They could send me to the Russian Front.
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Or shoot you.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Or both.
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: [laughs] That's impossible. You can't shoot a man AND send him to the Russian Front.
[thinks for a moment]
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: No, they could do it.

Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: I don't know what it is but, uh, beautiful girls can not resist me.
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: No, no, Schultz. You mean you just can not resist them.
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: I like it my way better.

Olsen: [about Carter and LeBeau, who are dressed as Germans] How do you like our Krauts?
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: They look good enough to shoot.

Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Big doin's upstairs, Colonel. Feldkamp has surrounded the camp with an S.S. battalion to get his car back; von Kattenhorn just finished calling for an infantry regiment to fight the S.S.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: [very pleased] That's beautiful. Beautiful!
Greta: You mean they're gonna fight a battle among themselves?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: I'd LOVE it. Unfortunately, some of US might get shot.

Col. Robert E. Hogan: [Carter's attempts to manufacture explosives destroys one of the tunnels] We still gotta figure a way to make more ammunition.
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Well, I'm still willing to try, Colonel.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Whose side are you on?
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: [referring to some shell casings he stole from Schultz] If we have about 500 of these, they'd make a lovely bomb.
[hands Colonel Hogan a shell casing]
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Hey, Newkirk, where'd you get these?
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: Schultz's cartridge case. I pinched them off while I was giving him that old jolly up.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Why not?
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Why not what, Colonel?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Blow up the Adolf Hitler Bridge with their own ammunition. It's a nice touch.
[gives Newkirk the shell casing back]
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Here.
[pulls down a map of the underground tunnels beneath their barracks]
Col. Robert E. Hogan: All right, fellas, look here. This is where the krauts keep their ammunition in the ammunition room, right? Now, we dig a right angle turn in Tunnel Number 3, and we surface in the middle of all that beautiful gunpowder.
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: It's marvelous.
LeBeau: That's great.
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Wait a minute. Hold it, fellas. Before you get too happy, I got some bad news. That last explosion collapsed about 50 feet of Tunnel 3.
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Oh, that's the clincher. The way the krauts are watching us, it'll take us a month to clear that 50 feet.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Newkirk, can you pick a lock?
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: I find that question, sir, 'ighly insulting.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Sorry, old bean, I should have known. Gentlemen, I think we're in business. LeBeau, we can use all the paint you have leftover from that sign job and a couple of paintbrushes, too.
LeBeau: Okay, what for?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Tonight, we're going to paint Klink into a corner.

Henry: Bolie?
[yawns]
Henry: I ain't gonna make no more wishes, Bolie. I'm too old for wishes, and there ain't no such thing as magic, is there?
Bolie: I guess not, Henry.
[pauses]
Bolie: Or maybe... maybe there is magic, and maybe there's wishes, too. I guess the trouble is... I guess the trouble is not enough people around to believe. Good night, boy.

Sgt. Schultz: Where is Colonel Hogan?
Kinchloe: Why don't you take a look in his office, Schultz?
Sgt. Schultz: I will!... Is he in there?
Kinchloe: No, but by that time, he may be out here.

Carter: I need a furlough. I'm a hardship case.
Kinchloe: That we know.

Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: Colonel Hogan, Herr Kommandant demands that I find the radio even if I have to take apart the barracks nail by nail with my teeth.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: That's fine with us, Schultz. Go ahead.
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: Oh, please, Colonel Hogan, it would make things so much easier if YOU would find the radio for me. ANY radio.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: All right. Sounds reasonable enough. Kinch, help him out, will ya?
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Sure, Colonel. Come on.
[open a footlocker packed with radios, wristwatches, pocket watches and other goods]
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: There you are. Take your choice.

Deputy: You seen the light, Reverend. You really seen the light.
Reverend: Have you?
Reverend: [turns to crowd] Have any of you?
Reverend: In all this darkness, is there anybody who can make out the truth? He hated, and he killed, and now he dies. And you hated, you killed, and now there's not one of you... Not one of you who isn't doomed. Do you know why it's dark? Do you know why it is night all around us? Do you know what the blackness is? It's the hate he felt, the hate you felt, the hate all of us feel, and there's too much of it. There's just too much. And so we had to vomit it out. And now it's coming up all around us and choking us. So much hate, so much miserable hate.

Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Look, I know that arrow was pointed in the right direction! I took a bearing from the roof of Klink's office.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Doesn't matter, Kinch. The Adolf Hitler Bridge is still in business.
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Yeah, and Klink's happy - nasty happy.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Let's make him unhappy - nasty unhappy. Let's knock out that bridge.
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Huh?
LeBeau: What?
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: You're kidding. I mean, how do we get there?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: We'll worry about that later. What kind of explosives we got, Carter?
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Three firecrackers and a can of lighter fluid.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Firecrackers?
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Well, sure. You remember. When we told Klink that LeBeau was part Chinese. We had to have firecrackers to celebrate Chinese New Year.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Yeah.
LeBeau: And I cooked that whole pot of chow mein with sauerkraut.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Please, not while I'm plotting.
[turns to Carter]
Col. Robert E. Hogan: You got anything to make explosives?
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Well, the easiest thing would be some kind of gas. We could get a detonator and a timer. Maybe chlorine gas.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: What do you need?
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Ammonia would do it. Mixed with bleach if we had any.
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Hey, the krauts keep a lot of that stuff in the kitchen for cleanup.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Newkirk, go find Schultz. Volunteer for kitchen detail.
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: Yes, Colonel.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Kinch, you go with Carter. Help him set up his bomb factory in Tunnel Number 3. Give him anything he needs.
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Right.
LeBeau: What-what about me, Colonel? What do I do?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: LeBeau, my boy, I'm holding you in reserve to make chow mein.
LeBeau: What?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: If Carter's bombs don't do it, we may have to poison that bridge.

Kinchloe: The next sound you hear should be very loud.
[Explosion, of the munitions dump]
Col. Hogan: Another day, another munitions dump.
LeBeau: And we got Newkirk back.

Col. Robert E. Hogan: Where's Schultz?
Kinchloe: Sacking out in my bunk.
LeBeau: Sleeping off his lunch.
Carter: I wonder what he's dreaming about?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: His dinner.

Kinchloe: What would they be doing here?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Maybe they came to capture us again. Very thorough, the Germans.

Col. Robert E. Hogan: They've given us tough assignments before and we've always been able to think of a way to get them done. They probably just assume we gonna do it the same way with this little problem. Well five men can not hold off a division.
Kinch,200397: Right
Col. Robert E. Hogan: It's ridiculous!
Kinch,200397: Right
Col. Robert E. Hogan: It just can't be done!
Kinch,200397: Right
Col. Robert E. Hogan: And here's how we're going to do it...

Kinchloe: Africa's a long way from Detroit.
Princess: I was from Cleveland. I'll meet you halfway, in Toledo?

Col. Hogan: [Col. Hogan and his crew enter their cabin with a new prisoner, Corporal Walter Tillman]
[pointing at an empty bunk]
Col. Hogan: That one's yours, pop.
Corporal: Okay, Hogan.
LeBeau: It's Colonel Hogan.
Corporal: Yeah? Well, I'll remember that.
Col. Hogan: What outfit were you with, pop?
Corporal: 605th engineers. After that, I went airborne. Don't ask me any questions about baseball. Any German spy knows more about it than I do.
Col. Hogan: You know how it is, pop. Can't be too careful
Corporal: Yeah, I know. Knock it off with that pop routine, will ya?
Col. Hogan: Unless that's the way you want it.
Corporal: That's the way I want it.
Carter: Hey, look, American cigarettes!
Corporal: Give me those!
[everyone looks at Tillman with suspicion]
Corporal: Well, it's the only pack I got.
Kinchloe: Yeah, well, there's a war on.
Col. Hogan: Tillman, didn't your mother ever teach you anything about sharing?
Newkirk: Maybe his mother doesn't know he smokes.
LeBeau: Well, maybe we should take his cigarettes away so his mother won't be unhappy.
Carter: Yeah, that's what we ought to do.
Corporal: Well, don't start anything. Someone might get hurt.
Newkirk: What gave you that idea, pop?
Col. Hogan: Knock it off! Go take a shower, Tillman.

Kinchloe: [referring to the listening device that was planted] There is a place for everything, and the thing is in its place.

Kinchloe: [Klink is calling Stalag 13 to found out if Col. Hogan is missing. Colonel Hogan's remaining crew intercept the call] Newkirk, Klink's on the phone from Paris. I got him on here, bypassed his office.
Newkirk: [imitating their substitute kommandant] Capt. Gruber here. Jawol, Kommandant Klink. How's your stay in Paris?
[pause]
Newkirk: You thought you saw Col. Hogan? Impossible, Kommandant. He's here right outside the office.
[another pause]
Newkirk: You want to talk with him? Yes, Herr Kommandant, I'll have him brought to the phone.
[takes the phone away from his head and covers the mouthpice]
Newkirk: [normal voice] Get Colonel Hogan in Paris, fast!
Kinchloe: Suppose he's not in?
Newkirk: He ruddy well better be in!

Carter: Hey, maybe hand grenades would do a little damage.
Newkirk: That's 15 miles from here at least.
Kinchloe: I'll warm up my pitching arm.

Newkirk: [upon learning that Crittendon parked a truck outside their barracks that's rigged to explode] The first thing we need to do is not panic.
Kinchloe: I already have. What's the second thing?

Kinchloe: I tapped Klink's phone lines, got the conversation down verbatim.
Col. Hogan: That's why he's a staff sergeant.
Kinchloe: Aw, shucks, Colonel.

[a huge explosion rocks the tunnel]
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Carter? Carter? Are you OK?
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Boy, that stuff's really unstable!
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Yeah.
Sgt. Andrew Carter: You've got to get that mixture just right.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Yeah, I know, I know.
Sgt. Andrew Carter: You gotta expect a few little explosions.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Oh, sure, sure.
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Oh, boy, you keep that up, Klink'll be down here in a minute, and there goes the ball game!
Col. Robert E. Hogan: I think I have an idea how to explain the noise. Carter, keep working... uh, you do have insurance?

LeBeau: Tomorrow, I go on strike.
Newkirk: That's all you Frenchmen ever do, go on strike.
Kinchloe: And make love.
Newkirk: Yeah, you never hear 'em strikin' about that, do you?

Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Come on, Schultz, you can't be that stupid.
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: Who says I can't?

Col. Robert E. Hogan: 'Sugar candy' is code for something special.
Cpl. Louis LeBeau: Maybe they'll drop us some USO girls.
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Could also mean heavy equipment.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: After two years here, who cares what they look like?

Cpl. Peter Newkirk: Steal a German tank?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: We'll give it back... after we take it apart and make blueprints of it.
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Well, how do we get ahold of it?
Cpl. Louis LeBeau: How do we get it in here?
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: Where are we going to hide a tank?
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Where do we take it apart?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Look, I got the idea of stealing it, right? The rest is detail.

Newkirk: Just a moment, Miss. Would you care to be a pen pal to a lonely British war hero in a German prison camp, who lies in his bunk, staring at the ceiling, wondering if ever again he'll see the white cliffs of Dover, or go strolling through the heather in the highlands, or take a rosy-cheeked English lass paddling on the Thames?
Goldilocks,: Stand by, Papa Bear. Our wires have just been crossed with the BBC and we're getting one of those dreadful soap operas.
Kinchloe: Roger, Goldilocks. Over and out.

Newkirk: Mama Bear, this is Papa Bear. Come in, please.
English: Go ahead, Papa Bear.
Newkirk: Would you try and locate my girlfriend for me? Her name is Rita Nottingham. She used to live in Tottenham Court Road. She's blonde, 36-24-36.
English: Sorry, we cannot use the air for personal messages.
Newkirk: Do me a favour, you're just jealous.
English: Why should I be? I'm 38-24-36.
Kinchloe: Some Mama Bear.

Kinchloe: Say, where do we find this guy, Alfie the Artist?
Newkirk: [imitating Peter Lorre] Just ask Scotland Yard. They know where he is at all times.

Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: [skims through a collection of maps and finds Pittsburgh] Pittsburgh? We had guys escape to Pittsburgh?
Hogan: Not "to" - "from".

Carter: Are you sure you're not part German, Kinch?
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: [with German accent] I don't think so.

Kinchloe: How will I sign it?
Col. Hogan: Oh, put a General's name on it. General...
Newkirk: Why not make it General Nuisance?
Col. Hogan: Very good idea. Sign that General Heinrich von Nuisance.

Col. Hogan: How long did it take us to dig that tunnel to the barbed-wire fence?
LeBeau: Well, we used eight men and as I remember, it took us about...
Kinchloe: Sixteen hours.
LeBeau: Yeah, sixteen hours.
Col. Hogan: All right, this is twice the distance. How long will it take to get to the girls?
Newkirk: About a hour and a half, sir.
LeBeau: We wouldn't let you dig this alone.
Newkirk: Well, with help, twenty minutes.

Janine: Mama Bear, we cannot find "cuckoo clock" in the code book.
Kinchloe: Quiche Lorraine, it's not in the code book. We're talking about a real Hammelburg cuckoo clock.

Col. Robert E. Hogan: Carter, get into a German uniform. I need another German.
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: How about me?

Col. Wilhelm Klink: What is it, Colonel Hogan? Another complaint?
Col. Hogan: No, sir. I've been thinking about our breaking the rules being up after lights out last night. It was wrong, and we owe you an apology.
Col. Wilhelm Klink: No harm done. Your apology is accepted.
Col. Hogan: No, this is a formal apology. You want to stand out here just a minute, sir?
[opens the office door]
Col. Hogan: Okay, fellas, places.
[all of Colonel Hogan's men enter]
Col. Hogan: Okay. Now...
Col. Hogan,91836: Colonel Klink, we wish to take this opportunity to apologize for not obeying the rules. We are sorry, and promise that it will never happen again. Never. We sincerely hope that you will accept this apology in the spirit in which it is given. Thank you. Thank you very much.
[during this, LeBeau discreetly takes the codebook from Klink's desk]
Col. Wilhelm Klink: Thank you very much. You were very nice.
Col. Hogan: Okay, fellas, that's it. Let's go. Colonel Klink is busy.

Col. Hogan: How much longer, Kinch?
Kinchloe: I don't know Colonel, it could be five minutes maybe five hours.
Col. Hogan: Great! Anything thing could be happening up there- anything.
Newkirk: You don't have to worry about Carter, Sir. He's a very fast thinker. If you give him enough time.

Reverend: Don't return their hate. Don't dishonor yourself.
Jagger: Why don't you go home and get out of here? I got too much hate in me to keep plugged up anymore!
Reverend: When he came at you, Jagger... did it feel good to you then?
Jagger: What difference?
Reverend: When you aimed that gun at his head... that wasn't such a bad moment, was it?
Jagger: Good, bad, who cares?
Reverend: When you killed him, Jagger... when you blew his head off... there were no regrets then, were there? You enjoyed that, didn't you?
Jagger: You know it!
Reverend: Yes. Yes, I... I know it now. Now I know it too well. You're guilty.
[turns to the crowd]
Reverend: This man is guilty.
Jagger: It's important to get with the majority, isn't it? That's... oh, that's a big thing nowadays, isn't it, Reverend?
Reverend: That's all there is, is the majority. The minority must have died on the cross, two thousand years ago.

Col. Hogan: [about Hochsetter] Why did he have to show up?
Kinchloe: What now, Colonel?
Col. Hogan: Well, in about two minutes, they're gonna be on their way to inspect Reich Marshall Goring.
Carter: Schultz?
Col. Hogan: I don't think he's gonna pass inspection.
LeBeau: What happens to Marya?
Newkirk: Never mind that. What happens to us?
Col. Hogan: Nothing good unless we move fast. Carter, get outside and start the attack.
Carter: Yes, sir.
Col. Hogan: Kinch, stay in radio contact with the planes. If they don't get a landing signal, tell them to get out of here and fast.
Kinchloe: Right, Colonel.
Col. Hogan: LeBeau, Newkirk, go with Carter.
LeBeau: Right.
Newkirk: What about you, sir?
Col. Hogan: I'm on my way to Klink's quarters. And don't ask me why, because I don't know.

Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: Achtung!
[no response]
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: Achtung!
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: What did you say, Schultz?
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: I said 'Achtung!'
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: Oh. Your bid, Kinch.
Kinch: Two of clubs.
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: When I say 'Achtung' that means that you all are to SNAP to attention.
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: Oh, is that what it means? Huh! I always thought it meant 'Good morning' or 'Greetings, Mate.' Something like that.
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: No, no. 'Achtung' is a command. When I say 'Achtung' I want you all to come to attention at once.
Cpl. Louis LeBeau: I wasn't sure what that one meant myself. It always sounded like Schultz was just clearing his throat. So that's a command for attention, huh?
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: That's right! Now that you all know it...
[Schultz leaves and then re-enters the room]
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: Achtung!
Sgt. Andrew Carter: And a 'Good morning' to you, too, Schultz.
Kinch: Didn't you hear what Schultz said?
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Sure. He said 'Achtung' so I said 'Good morning' right back to him.
Kinch: Achtung doesn't mean 'Good morning.'
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Well, that's what Newkirk says it means. And who are we gonna believe? One of us or one of them?
Kinch: He's got a point there.
Cpl. Louis LeBeau: Yes he does! You'd better brush up on your German, Schultz.
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: Yeah, don't use words you're not sure of. In future, to avoid confusion, why don't you just say 'Good Morning' in English?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Hi Schultz! Just let us all know when it's time for Roll Call, will you?
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: Jawohl, Colonel Hogan... But it IS time for Roll Call. That's why I came here in the first place! It's almost PAST time for Roll Call!
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Well, you'd never make sergeant in OUR Air Force.
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: Roll Call! Everybody out, out, out, out, out, out, out! Roll Call! Raus!
Sgt. Andrew Carter: Hey Thank you! And a 'Good day' to you, too, Schultz.

Captain: [entering Klink's office] Colonel Klink. Heil Hitler.
Col. Klink: Heil Hitler. Uh, please, Captain. Sit down, sit down.
[closes the door to his office]
Col. Klink: Uh, what can I do for you?
Captain: I have been assigned to Gestapo headquarters in Dusseldorf, but I'm living in Hammelberg at the moment. Hauserhof Hotel, room 209.
Col. Klink: Very interesting. But is it important?
Captain: Very.
Newkirk: [listening in from the coffee pot] What's this Captain's game?
LeBeau: Keep quiet, and maybe we'll find out.
Col. Klink: Of course I remember the plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. Could any loyal German ever forget it?
Captain: I don't think you will. The conspirators are still being rounded up. A very important man was recently arrested. I searched his house.
[takes out a picture from his coat pocket]
Captain: Found this picture and the negatives.
Col. Klink: Mm-hmm.
[looks at the picture and sees himself next to the conspirator]
Col. Klink: No, it's not possible!
Col. Hogan: Klink sounds like he swallowed his monocle.
Kinchloe: Must be some picture.
LeBeau: Klink and a woman, maybe?
Col. Hogan: Impossible. Klink's in love with Klink. Wouldn't let anyone come between himself.
Col. Klink: General Mulendorf.
Captain: That's his arm around your shoulders.
Col. Klink: Yes. We were friends.
Captain: Close friends.
[voice turns stern]
Captain: And very possibly associated in the plot to assassinate the Fuhrer.
Col. Klink: [drops the picture] I knew the man. We went to school together for ten years; saw each other every day. But what's that?
Captain: You were also best man at his wedding.
Col. Klink: Oh, well... I had nothing else to do that afternoon.
Captain: Colonel, I have a problem. If turn this picture into Gestapo headquarters, an innocent man may be executed.
Col. Klink: Innocent?
Captain: You.
Col. Klink: Me? I'm not innocent. I mean, I am innocent. What have I done?
Captain: If I destroy the negative, or... give it to you, I won't exactly be doing my duty, will I?
Col. Klink: No. You do have a problem.
Col. Hogan: Klink's beautiful, isn't he?
Kinchloe: Little Alice in Krautland.
Newkirk: How stupid man one man be?
Col. Hogan: Keep listening. He'll tell you.
Col. Klink: And you expect me to pay your hotel bill?
Captain: In addition to say, a thousand marks right now. While I consider the problem.
Col. Klink: Couldn't you consider the problem a little less expensively?
Captain: The life an innocent kommandant is at stake.
Col. Klink: Oh. I'll get the money out of the safe.

Col. Klink: What about Feldcamp?
LeBeau: They thought he was so overworked, they sent him to a rest camp.
Kinchloe: And when he got out, he was so rested, they sent him to the Russian front.
Col. Hogan: Now he's really resting... in peace.
Col. Klink: Poor Feldcamp.

Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: Three men missing? I have to count again. Eins, zwei, drei...
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Forget it, Schultz, there are three men missing.
Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: And Klink will be here in a minute.
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: I wish there would be four missing.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Why four?
Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz: Including me.

Kinchloe: We interrupt this program to bring you a special broadcast.
[Klink gets up to turn off the radio]
Kinchloe: It is forbidden to turn off your radios. The next voice you hear will be the Führer.

Col. Robert E. Hogan: [as if gazing into the future through a German stick grenade] The war games they're having tomorrow: I see casualties. Lots of casualties.
Kinchloe: Casualties in war games?
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: Ah, a few get hurt, sir.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: I see a lot more than a few.
Cpl. Louis LeBeau: You want us to take on a whole SS regiment?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: No. We let them take on each other. Now picture if you will the fascinating consequences if this dummy ammunition, if used in the war games, is sprinkled with a goodly amount of the real McCoy.

Sgt. James 'Kinch' Kinchloe: Oh, Colonel, we got roll call in a few minutes.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: [staying with the radio] Right. If I'm not there, start without me.

LeBeau: What can they do to us? Bamboo under the fingernails? Chinese water torture? The Rack?
Kinchloe: Would you mind keeping your voice down? Maybe they haven't thought of those yet.

Bolie: Little boys. Little boys with their heads full up with dreams. When do they find out, Frances? When do they suddenly find out that there ain't any magic? When does somebody push their face down on the sidewalk and say to them, "Hey, little boy, it's concrete. That's what the world is made out of, concrete." When do they find out that you can wish your life away?