Saving Private Ryan Quotes

Saving Private Ryan is a television show that first aired in 1970 . Saving Private Ryan ended its run in 1970.

It features Ian Bryce; Mark Gordon; Gary Levinsohn, and Steven Spielberg as producer, John Williams in charge of musical score, and Janusz Kamiński as head of cinematography.

Saving Private Ryan is recorded in English, German, French, Czech, and Spanish and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Saving Private Ryan is 169 minutes long. Saving Private Ryan is distributed by DreamWorks, and Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Tom Hanks as Captain Miller, Adam Goldberg as Mellish, Jeremy Davies as Upham, Ryan Hurst as Parker, Barry Pepper as Private Jackson, Tom Sizemore as Sergeant Horvath, Giovanni Ribisi as Medic Wade, Leland Orser as Lieutenant Dewindt, Joerg Stadler as Steamboat Willie, Ted Danson as Captain Hamill, Adam Goldberg as Private, Paul Giamatti as Sergeant Hill, Dennis Farina as Lt. Col. Anderson, and Ryan Hurst as Paratrooper Mandelsohn.

Saving Private Ryan Quotes

Tom Hanks as Captain Miller

• (Tom Hanks) "You take a standard G.I sock, cram it with as much Composition B as it can hold, rig up a simple fuse, then coat the whole thing with axel grease. Now when you throw it, it should stick. Its a bomb that sticks, its a "sticky bomb". Think of a better way to knock out the tracks, I'm all ears."
• (Private Reiben) "This is great, now we gotta surrender our socks."

• (Tom Hanks) "Bangalores up the line. Bagalores up the line."
• (Tom Sizemore) "Heads up, bangers comin' your way."
• (Private Caparzo) "Jesus, lucky bastard."

• (Tom Hanks) "They're tankbusters sir. P-51s."
• (Private Ryan) "Angels on our shoulders."

• (Tom Hanks) "The world has taken a turn for the surreal."

• (Private Ryan) "Hell, these guys deserve to go home as much as I do. They've fought just as hard."
• (Tom Hanks) "Is that what I'm supposed to tell your mother when she gets another folded American flag?"
• (Private Ryan) "You can tell her that when you found me, I was with the only brothers I had left. And that there was no way I was deserting them. I think she'd understand that."

• (Corporal Upham) ""War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.""
• (Tom Hanks) "I guess that's Emerson's way of finding the bright side."

• (Tom Hanks) "Mike, Are you all right?"
• (Tom Sizemore) "I just got the wind knocked out of me. I'm fine."

• (Tom Hanks) "Bangalores, clear the shingle."
• (Adam Goldberg) "Fire in the hole."
• (Tom Sizemore) "Fire in the hole."
• (Adam Goldberg) "Fire in the hole."
• (Giovanni Ribisi) "Fire in the hole."

• (Tom Hanks) "Get your gear. Let's go."
• (Tom Sizemore) "You heard him, gear up. Your captain just gave you an order."
• (Private Reiben) "Yeah, like the one he gave to take this machine gun. That was a real doosey, wasn't it?"
• (Tom Sizemore) "Soldier, you are way out of line."
• (Private Reiben) "Yes sir, that was one hell of a call coming to take this nest, but hell, we only lost one of our guys going for it. That's right, I hope Mama Ryan's real f***'n happy knowing that Little Jimmy's life is a little bit more important than two of our guys. But then again we haven't found him yet have we? Have we?"

• (Tom Hanks) "Well when I think of home, I -- I think of something specific. I think of my, my hammock in the backyard or my wife pruning the rosebushes in a pair of my old work gloves."
• (Private Ryan) "This, this one night, two of my brothers came and woke me up in the middle of the night. And they said they had a surprise for me. So they took me to the barn up in the loft and there was my oldest brother, Dan, with Alice, Alice Jardine. I mean, picture a girl who just took a nosedive from the ugly tree and hit every branch coming down. And -- and Dan's got his shirt off and he's working on this bra and he's tryin to get it off and all of a sudden Shawn just screams out, "Danny you're a young man, don't do it." And so Alice Jardine hears this and she screams and she jumps up and she tries to get running out of the barn but she's still got this shirt over her head. She goes running right into the wall and knocks herself out. So now Danny's just so mad at us. He, he starts coming after us, but -- but at the same time Alice is over there unconscious. He's gotta wa -- , wake her up. So he grabs her by a leg and he's drag, dragging her. At the same time he picks up a shovel. And he's going after Shawn, and Shawn's saying, "What are you trying to hit me for? I just did you a favor." And so this makes Dan more angry. He tries to swing this thing, he looses the shovel, goes outta his grasp and hits a kerosene lantern; the thing explodes, the whole barn almost goes up because of this thing. That was it. That was the last, that was, Dan went off to basic the next day. That was the last night the four of us were together. That was two years ago. Tell me about your wife and those rosebushes?"
• (Tom Hanks) "No, no that one I save just for me."

• (Tom Hanks) ""The Statue of Liberty is kaput"; that's disconcerting."

• (Tom Hanks) "Caparzo, get that kid back up there."
• (Private Caparzo) "Captain, the decent thing to do would be take her over to the next town."
• (Tom Hanks) "We're not here to do the decent thing, we're here to follow f***ing orders."

• (Tom Hanks) "COVERING FIRE."

• (Private Reiben) "I got a bad feeling about this one."
• (Tom Hanks) "When was the last time you felt good about anything?"

• (Tom Hanks) "I'm a schoolteacher. I teach English composition -- in this little town called Adley, Pennsylvania. The last eleven years, I've been at Thomas Alva Edison High School. I was a coach of the baseball team in the springtime. Back home, I tell people what I do for a living and they think well, now that figures. But over here, it's a big, a big mystery. So, I guess I've changed some. Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much my wife is even going to recognize me, whenever it is that I get back to her. And how I'll ever be able to tell her about days like today. Ah, Ryan. I don't know anything about Ryan. I don't care. The man means nothing to me. It's just a name. But if -- You know if going to Rumelle and finding him so that he can go home. If that earns me the right to get back to my wife, then that's my mission."
• (Tom Hanks) "You want to leave? You want to go off and fight the war? All right. All right. I won't stop you. I'll even put in the paperwork. I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel."

• (Tom Hanks) "James Francis Ryan from Iowa?"
• (Private Ryan) "Yes sir. How'd you guess that?"

• (Private Reiben) "You wanna explain the math of this to me? I mean, where's the sense of riskin' the lives of the eight of us to save one guy?"
• (Tom Hanks) "Twenty degrees. Anybody wanna answer that?"
• (Giovanni Ribisi) "Reiben, think about the poor bastard's mother."
• (Private Reiben) "Hey, Doc, I got a mother, all right? I mean, you got a mother. Sarge's got a mother. I mean, s***, I bet even the captain's got a mother."
• (Private Reiben) "Well, maybe not the captain, but the rest of us got mothers."
• (Jeremy Davies) ""Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.""
• (Adam Goldberg) "La-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la. What the f*** is that supposed to mean, Corporal, huh? We're all supposed to die, is that it?"
• (Tom Hanks) "Upham's talking about our duty as soldiers."
• (Jeremy Davies) "Yes, sir."
• (Tom Hanks) "We all have orders, and we have to follow 'em. That supersedes everything, including your mothers."
• (Jeremy Davies) "Yes, sir. Thank you sir."
• (Private Reiben) "Even if you think the mission's FUBAR, sir?"
• (Tom Hanks) "Especially if you think the mission's FUBAR."

• (Tom Hanks) "This is all? That's all that've made it?"
• (Tom Sizemore) "We're scattered pretty bad, sir. There's bound to be more of us."
• (Tom Hanks) "Not enough, this is not enough."
• (Tom Sizemore) "Dog One-It's got to be the cut on the right, or is it the one on the left, s***."
• (Tom Hanks) "No, no. Vierville is to the west of us, so this is Dog One."

• (Private Ryan) "Uh sir? Where am I to be during all this?"
• (Tom Hanks) "No more than two feet away from me. And that's not negotiable."

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

• (Tom Hanks) "James Francis Ryan of Iowa?"
• (Private Ryan) "Yes, sir. Paton, Iowa, that's correct. What is this about?"
• (Tom Hanks) "Your brothers were killed in combat."
• (Private Ryan) "Which; Which ones?"
• (Tom Hanks) "All of them."

• (Tom Hanks) "Whose goin' left?"
• (Barry Pepper) "I'll do it. I'll go left."

• (Tom Hanks) ". RYAN."
• (Tom Hanks) "Ryan."
• (Private Ryan) "Get off of me."
• (Tom Hanks) "Are you all right?"
• (Private Ryan) "Uhh. GET OFF OF ME."
• (Private Reiben) "Yeah. I'm fine too Captain. Thanks."

• (Tom Hanks) "We are not here to do a decent thing, we are here to follow f***in' orders."

• (Tom Hanks) "Keep the sand out of your weapons. Keep those actions clear. I'll see you on the beach."

• (Tom Hanks) "It's like finding a needle in a stack of needles."

• (Corporal Upham) "Tell us what to do -- tell us how to fix you."
• (Tom Hanks) "What can we do Wade? Tell us what to do."
• (Giovanni Ribisi) "I could use some -- I could use a little Morphine."
• (Tom Hanks) "Okay -- Give it to him -- Give it him."

• (Tom Hanks) "THIS is why we don't pick up children."

• (Tom Hanks) "You see, when -- when you end up killing one of your men, you see, you tell yourself it happened so you could save the lives of two or three or ten others. Maybe a hundred others. Do you know how many men I've lost under my command?"
• (Tom Sizemore) "How many?"
• (Tom Hanks) "Ninety-four. But that means I've saved the lives of ten times that many, doesn't it? Maybe even 20, right? Twenty times as many? And that's how simple it is. That's how you -- that's how you rationalize making the choice between the mission and the man."

Giovanni Ribisi as Medic Wade

• (Giovanni Ribisi) "Actually, the trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake."
• (Adam Goldberg) "How is that, Wade?"
• (Giovanni Ribisi) "Well, when my mother was an intern, she used to work late through the night -- sleep through the day. So the only time we'd ever get to talk about anything is when she'd get home. So what I -- I used to do, I used to lie in my bed and try to stay awake as long as I could, but it never worked 'cause -- 'cause the harder I'd try, the faster I'd fall asleep."
• (Private Reiben) "Yeah well, that wouldn't have mattered none in my house. My ma, she would've come home, shook me awake, chatted me up 'til dawn. I swear that woman was never too tired to talk."
• (Adam Goldberg) "That was probably the only time she could get a word in."

• (Giovanni Ribisi) "We stopped the bleeding. We stopped the bleeding."
• (Giovanni Ribisi) "f***. Just give us a f***ing chance you son of a bitch. You son of a f***ing cocksucker."

Tom Sizemore as Sergeant Horvath

• (Tom Sizemore) "Maybe I should go up the middle, sir."
• (Tom Hanks) "The way you run? I don't think so."
• (Tom Sizemore) "Maybe I should go up the left, sir."
• (Tom Hanks) "Maybe you should shut up."

• (Tom Sizemore) "You don't know when to shut up; you don't know HOW to shut up."

• (Tom Sizemore) "What are your orders?"
• (Tom Hanks) "Sergeant, we have crossed some strange boundary here. The world has taken a turn for the surreal."
• (Tom Sizemore) "Clearly, but the question still stands."
• (Tom Hanks) "I don't know. What do you think?"
• (Tom Sizemore) "I don't think you want to know what I think."
• (Tom Hanks) "No, Mike, I do."
• (Tom Sizemore) "Well, part of me thinks the kid's right. What has he done to deserve this? He wants to stay here, fine, let's leave him and go home."
• (Tom Hanks) "Yeah."
• (Tom Sizemore) "But another part of me thinks what if, by some miracle, we stay, and actually make it out of here. Someday we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole godawful s***ty mess. That's what I was thinking, sir. Like you said, Captain, we do that, then we all earn the right to go back home."
• (Tom Hanks) "Oh, brother."

• (Tom Sizemore) "We're in business."

• (Tom Sizemore) "That's quite a view."
• (Tom Hanks) "Yes it is. Quite a view."

• (Tom Sizemore) "Stars."
• (Leland Orser) "Yeah, Brigadier General Amend, deputy commander, 101st. Some f***ing genius had the great idea of welding a couple of steel plates onto our deck to keep the general safe from ground fire. Unfortunately, they forgot to tell me about it until we were just getting airborne. Well, that's like trying to fly a freight train. OK? Gross overload. Trim characteristics all shot to hell. I nearly broke both my arms trying to keep her level. And when- and when we released, you know I cut as hard as I could, tried to gain some altitude and still keep her from stalling. We came down like a f***ing meteor. And that is how we ended up. And the others, they stopped easy enough OK, though, you know? We were just-we were just too damn heavy, you know? The grass was wet, downward slope and all. 22 guys dead."
• (Tom Hanks) "All that for a general?"
• (Leland Orser) "One man."
• (Private Reiben) "Lot of that going around."

• (Private Reiben) "You wouldn't shoot the kraut and now you're gonna shoot me?"
• (Tom Sizemore) "He's better than you."

• (Tom Sizemore) "Reuben. Hey, Reiben. Where's your BAR?"
• (Private Reiben) "Bottom of the channel sir. The bitch tried to drown me."

• (Tom Sizemore) "I don't know. Part of me thinks the kid's right. He asks what he's done to deserve this. He wants to stay here, fine. Let's leave him and go home. But then another part of me thinks, what if by some miracle we stay, then actually make it out of here. Someday we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole godawful, s***ty mess. Like you said, Captain, maybe we do that, we all earn the right to go home."

• (Tom Sizemore) "Why don't you just hand 'em blindfolds, Captain?"
• (Tom Hanks) "All we can do here is die."

Ted Danson as Captain Hamill

• (Ted Danson) "We sure as hell could use you around here, but I understand what you're doing."
• (Tom Hanks) "You do?"
• (Ted Danson) "Yeah. I've got a couple of brothers myself."
• (Tom Hanks) "Oh."
• (Ted Danson) "Good luck."
• (Tom Hanks) "Thank you."
• (Ted Danson) "No, I mean it. Find him. Get him home."

• (Ted Danson) "You got to take Caen so you can take Saint Lo."
• (Tom Hanks) "You've got to take Saint Lo to take Valognes."
• (Ted Danson) "Valognes you got Cherbourg."
• (Tom Hanks) "Cherbourg you got Paris."
• (Ted Danson) "Paris you got Berlin."
• (Tom Hanks) "And then that big boat home."

Ryan Hurst as Paratrooper Mandelsohn

• (Ryan Hurst) "We missed our drop zone by about 20 miles, ended up way over by Bumville or some damn place."

• (Ryan Hurst) "I'm out of.30 Caliber."
• (Barry Pepper) "Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight."
• (Barry Pepper) "My goodness and my fortress -- my high tower and my Deliverer."
• (Barry Pepper) "My shield, and he in whom I trust."
• (Barry Pepper) "Here you go baby."
• (Barry Pepper) "Parker, get down."

Adam Goldberg as Mellish

• (Adam Goldberg) "Don't shoot. LET THEM BURN."

• (Private Reiben) "You know what that song reminds me of? It reminds me of Mrs. Rachel Troubowitz and what she said to me the day I left for basic."
• (Adam Goldberg) "What, don't touch me?"
• (Private Reiben) "No, Mrs. Rachel Troubowitz was our super's wife. She comes into my mom's shop to try on a few things, all right? And she's easily like a uh, a 44 double E. These things are massive. And I've got her convinced that she's like a 42D, all right. So we're in the dressing room, she's trying to squeeze into this side cut, silk ribbonned, triple panel girdle with the uh, shelf-lift brassiere and it's beautiful because she's just pouring outta this thing, you know? It's beautiful. And she sees me and she can tell I got a hard on the size of the statue of liberty, all right? And she says to me, "Richard, calm down." And she says, "Now when you're over there, if you see anything that upsets you, if you're ever scared, I want you to close your eyes and think of these. You understand?" So I said, "Yes, ma'am.""

• (Adam Goldberg) "Your father was circumcised by my rabbi, you prick."

• (Adam Goldberg) "f***ed up beyond all recognition."
• (Jeremy Davies) "FUBAR."

• (Adam Goldberg) "Upham. Upham. Ammo god**** it."

• (Adam Goldberg) "I'm just saying, this seems like an unnecessary risk considering our objective, sir."
• (Tom Hanks) "Our objective is to win the war."

• (Adam Goldberg) "What's the rallying point?"
• (Tom Hanks) "Anywhere but here."

Barry Pepper as Private Jackson

• (Barry Pepper) "O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me."

• (Barry Pepper) "Sir -- I have an opinion on this matter."
• (Tom Hanks) "Well, by all means, share it with the squad."
• (Barry Pepper) "Well, from my way of thinking, sir, this entire mission is a serious misallocation of valuable military resources."
• (Tom Hanks) "Yeah. Go on."
• (Barry Pepper) "Well, it seems to me, sir, that God gave me a special gift, made me a fine instrument of warfare."
• (Tom Hanks) "Reiben, pay attention. Now, this is the way to gripe. Continue, Jackson."
• (Barry Pepper) "Well, what I mean by that, sir, is -- if you was to put me and this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile of Adolf Hitler with a clear line of sight, sir -- pack your bags, fellas, war's over. Amen."
• (Private Reiben) "Oh, that's brilliant, bumpkin. Hey, so, Captain, what about you? I mean, you don't gripe at all?"
• (Tom Hanks) "I don't gripe to you, Reiben. I'm a captain. There's a chain of command. Gripes go up, not down. Always up. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer, so on, so on, and so on. I don't gripe to you. I don't gripe in front of you. You should know that as a Ranger."
• (Private Reiben) "I'm sorry, sir, but uh -- let's say you weren't a captain, or maybe I was a major. What would you say then?"
• (Tom Hanks) "Well, in that case -- I'd say, "This is an excellent mission, sir, with an extremely valuable objective, sir, worthy of my best efforts, sir. Moreover -- I feel heartfelt sorrow for the mother of Private James Ryan and am willing to lay down my life and the lives of my men; especially you, Reiben; to ease her suffering.""
• (Adam Goldberg) "He's good."
• (Private Caparzo) "I love him."

• (Barry Pepper) "I wouldn't venture out there fellas. This sniper's got talent."

• (Barry Pepper) "Be not Thou far from me, O Lord."

Jeremy Davies as Upham

• (Jeremy Davies) "So where are you from, Captain? What'd you do before the war?"
• (Tom Hanks) "What's the pool up to?"
• (Jeremy Davies) "Uh -- up over three hundred, sir."
• (Tom Hanks) "Well, when it gets up to five hundred, I'll give you the answers and we'll split the money. How about that?"
• (Jeremy Davies) "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."
• (Tom Hanks) "What if we don't live that long?"
• (Jeremy Davies) "Five hundred?"
• (Tom Hanks) "Five hundred would be good, yeah. Get some sleep Corporal."
• (Jeremy Davies) "Yes, sir."

Dennis Farina as Lt. Col. Anderson

• (Dennis Farina) "What about our casualties?"
• (Tom Hanks) "Well, the figures were, 35 dead, times two wounded. They just didn't wanna give up those 88s."
• (Dennis Farina) "It was a tough assignment, that's why you got it."
• (Tom Hanks) "Yes, it was."
• (Dennis Farina) "John, I've got another one for ya --"
• (Tom Hanks) "Yes, Sir."
• (Dennis Farina) "This one's straight from the top --"

Joerg Stadler as Steamboat Willie

• (Joerg Stadler) "Please, I like America. Fancy schmancy. What a cinch. Go fly a kite. Cat got your tongue. Hill of beans. Betty Boop, what a dish. Betty Grable, nice gams."
• (Joerg Stadler) "I say can you see. I say can you see. I -- I say -- f*** Hitler. f*** Hitler."

Leland Orser as Lieutenant Dewindt

• (Leland Orser) "FUBAR."
• (Private Reiben) "FUBAR."
• (Tom Sizemore) "FUBAR."
• (Tom Hanks) "FUBAR"
• (Barry Pepper) "Y'all got that right."
• (Corporal Upham) "I looked up "fubar" in the German dictionary and there's no fubar in here."

Paul Giamatti as Sergeant Hill

• (Paul Giamatti) "THUNDER."
• (Adam Goldberg) "Flash. Come on in."
• (Paul Giamatti) "Hey guys, we're looking for Captain Hamill."
• (Adam Goldberg) "He's over down there, somewhere across the square."
• (Paul Giamatti) "Across the square?"
• (Adam Goldberg) "Go easy. Watch for snipers."
• (Tom Sizemore) "Take it easy. Sit down."
• (Paul Giamatti) "All right, Jimmy T. Go find Captain Hamill. Bring him in here."
• (Unnamed) "What? Up there?"
• (Paul Giamatti) "How the hell should I know? Would you just go look for him, please? Thank you, you moron. All right. You guys just flake out here for a while. Ohh. Let me get this goddam hitchhiker out of my boot."

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