Saving Private Ryan Quotes

Upham : So where are you from, Captain? What'd you do before the war?
Captain Miller : What's the pool up to?
Upham : [ chuckles ] Uh... up over three hundred, sir.
Captain Miller : Well, when it gets up to five hundred, I'll give you the answers and we'll split the money. How about that?
Upham : Well, if that's the way you feel sir, then I feel it's my duty and your command to suggest that we wait until it gets up to a thousand, sir.
Captain Miller : [ pause ] What if we don't live that long?
Upham : [ makes a show of considering ] Five hundred?
Captain Miller : Five hundred would be good, yeah. Get some sleep Corporal.
Upham : Yes, sir.

Movie: Saving Private Ryan
Mellish : Fucked up beyond all recognition.
Upham : [ Thinks for a moment ] FUBAR!

Movie: Saving Private Ryan
Lt. Col. Anderson : What about *our* casualties?
Captain Miller : Well, the figures were, 35 dead, times two wounded. They just didn't wanna give up those 88s.
Lt. Col. Anderson : It was a tough assignment, that's why you got it.
Captain Miller : Yes, it was.
Lt. Col. Anderson : John, I've got another one for ya...
Captain Miller : Yes, Sir.
Lt. Col. Anderson : This one's straight from the top...

Movie: Saving Private Ryan
Captain Miller : You and I are taking a squad over to Neuville on a public relations mission.
Sergeant Horvath : What, you leading a squad?
Captain Miller : Some private in the 101st lost three brothers and he's got a ticket home.
Sergeant Horvath : How come Neuville?
Captain Miller : Eh, they think he's up there somewhere, part of all those airborne misdrops.
Sergeant Horvath : It's not gonna be easy finding one particular soldier in the middle of this whole goddamn war.
Captain Miller : Like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
Sergeant Horvath : But what about the company?
Captain Miller : We take the pick of the litter and the rest get folded into Baker.
Sergeant Horvath : Jesus Christ. They took away your company?
Captain Miller : Wasn't my company, it was the Army's. So they told me, anyway. Give me Reiben on BAR, Jackson, Wade, Beasley, and Caparzo.
Sergeant Horvath : Beasley's dead.
Captain Miller : All right, Mellish then. We got anybody speaks French?
Sergeant Horvath : Not that I know of.
Captain Miller : What about Talbot?
Sergeant Horvath : This morning.
Captain Miller : Oh... all right. I'm gonna try to dig up another interpreter. Assemble at battalion motor pool on the beach.
Sergeant Horvath : Yes, sir. Listen up...
Private Caparzo : What are we gonna do?
Sergeant Horvath : What?
Private Caparzo : What are we gonna do?
Sergeant Horvath : You're goin' home wrapped in an American flag with a hunk of cheese in your ass, Caparzo, you smart-ass! Now listen up...
Private Reiben : I though

Movie: Saving Private Ryan