Saving Private Ryan Quotes

• I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.

  Tom Hanks

  Home, Men, Feels

  "Fictional character: Captain Miller". "Saving Private Ryan", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Memories, Father

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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• The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Pride, Sacrifice, Civil War

  Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

  Barry Pepper

  War, Blessed, Fighting

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• Put your money where your mouth is.

  John Sheridan

  Teeth, Mouths, Dentist

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• Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.

  Tom Hanks

  Falling In Love, Men, Waiting

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• Tell you what, if there were gays in the army 'Saving Private Ryan' would have been a hell of a lot shorter film. There is no way it would take gay men three hours to find Matt Damon.

  Adam Hills

  Army, Gay, Men

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• If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Lists, Minorities, Schindler

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I do like 'Munich'.It's a really wonderful film. I mean, there's 'Schindler's List', there's 'Saving Private Ryan'. But 'Munich' - of all the other films, Munich would be the one that's really, really amazing storytelling.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Mean, Would Be, Munich

  Source: screenrant.com

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• There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'

  Steven Spielberg

  Three, Proud, Firsts

  "Broadcast Film critics name 'Saving Private Ryan' best film" by Paul Clinton, www.cnn.com. January 26, 1999.

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• I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?

  Tom Sizemore

  Years, Ask Me, Knows

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• As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.

  Tim Robbins

  Battle, Would Be, News

  2003 Speech to the National Press Club,Washington DC,15 Apr.

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• Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence.

  Eminem

  Saving, Violence, Criticize

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• I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

  Steven Spielberg

  Growing Up, Father, War

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• It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?

  Vin Diesel

  Real, People, Interesting

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• When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

  Vin Diesel

  Gamer, Amazement, Diesel

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