Eli Wallach
(as John)
John:
Ah, couldn't be worse! There's nothing worse than war!
Italian Sergeant: Defeat is worse!
John: I don't believe it! What is defeat? You go home!
Italian Sergeant: Defeat is worse!
John: I don't believe it! What is defeat? You go home!
Dan Dailey
(as Billy Campbell)
Billy Campbell:
One more, bottlekeeper!
Billy Campbell: [finishes the drink in front of him] Better make it two!
Billy Campbell: [noticing the bartender's impatience] We keeping you up?
Bartender: Yes, sir!
Billy Campbell: [sarcastically] The wages of gin!
Billy Campbell: [finishes the drink in front of him] Better make it two!
Billy Campbell: [noticing the bartender's impatience] We keeping you up?
Bartender: Yes, sir!
Billy Campbell: [sarcastically] The wages of gin!
Arthur Kennedy
(as Dr. Adams)
Dr. Henry Adams:
I'd hate like hell to donate you to a war that doesn't even concern us. It's bad enough to die for your own country!
Arthur Kennedy
(as Dr. Adams)
Dr. Henry Adams:
Well, Nick, what's a young man's reality is just an older man's dream. Old men dream dreams. Young men see visions.
Richard Beymer
(as Nick Adams)
Nick Adams:
Listen, Dad, you're always coming to me about Mother. Why don't you go to her for me and explain to her that I'm not a boy anymore.
Michael J. Pollard
(as George)
Nick Adams:
Look, what can you tell in four days?
George: I'll tell ya what I can tell. I can tell ya that three times a day I get hungry and every twenty-four hours I get an irresistible urge to go to sleep in a bed. I don't wanna beg and I don't wanna steal. I don't want a cop tellin' me I'm a vagrant and runnin' me outta town. I'm sorry to desert you, but I'm not cut out for this kind of a life.
George: I'll tell ya what I can tell. I can tell ya that three times a day I get hungry and every twenty-four hours I get an irresistible urge to go to sleep in a bed. I don't wanna beg and I don't wanna steal. I don't want a cop tellin' me I'm a vagrant and runnin' me outta town. I'm sorry to desert you, but I'm not cut out for this kind of a life.
Richard Beymer
(as Nick Adams)
Dan Dailey
(as Billy Campbell)
Nick Adams:
You've already had twelve drinks. How can you be thirsty?
Billy Campbell: [Clasping the side of Nick's face] It's an emotional thirst, not a physical one. You wouldn't understand.
Billy Campbell: [Clasping the side of Nick's face] It's an emotional thirst, not a physical one. You wouldn't understand.
