Soldier Quotes

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One of the hardest things about playing a soldier is kinda acknowledging that I`ve never done, and might never do anything that brave.

- Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in Soldier`s Girl. Here I was, this 6`3" 190-pound lanky kid from Chickasha, Oklahoma, not knowing how to begin being a woman. So I saw documentaries about transsexuals, I lost twenty-five pounds, and I put on prosthetic boobs and hips to become that character. There were times I`d look in the mirror and wonder `what am I doing to my life here? My dad is going to kill me!` But the reason I went into acting was to be able to play parts as complicated and important as this one. In playing a transsexual, I got the chance to help change people`s perspective about other people and that is a powerful thing. I`m playing a swashbuckling bandit in my next film, but I`ll always be proud of Soldier`s Girl.

- Lee Pace

I am a soldier. I live a soldier`s life when I`m working. That`s how it feels to me, except I`ve got a slightly greater chance of survival.

- Tilda Swinton

"The most drunk I ever got was at a private view for a college art show. I think I had two bottles of tequila and completely lost about ten hours. I woke up in a cell and, when my vision cleared, I found myself staring at a Nepalese soldier in full uniform. He didn`t speak any English and he was just very alarmed that I was in there with him. When I asked the coppers what had happened, they said, `Well we found you at Euston station, unconscious and surrounded by a group of tramps, so we thought we`d bring you here for your own good.` I`d had all my money taken, so I had to walk home."

- Damon Albarn

(On his role in The Thin Red Line (1998) being cut down from lead character to bit part) "It kind of felt like a soldier coming home after giving his soul and then not being appreciated. At 24, it sucked; it was embarrassing because I would assume if an actor was cut out of a movie of that nature with a director of that caliber it must be as a result of a flaw in the actor`s work. Not as a result of a director changing his vision. But you pick yourself up. The advantage of being a bigger name is it costs them too much money to cut you out of a movie."

- Adrien Brody

I don`t think I could be a foot soldier. I don`t know if I could take orders too good. I`m a little lazy.

- Benicio Del Toro

I`m a lover and a fighter. That`s what`s so engaging. She is the most balanced person on that ship. She has a loving marriage (to Wash, the pilot of spaceship Serenity) and a job she embraces every morning. She likes being a soldier. She`s good at it.

- Gina Torres

My parents were very liberal. That`s a misconception about the military. I`m a proud Army brat. I love the military. It breaks my heart what this war has done to it. These backdoor, draftlike returns of soldiers to the front - you don`t do that. You don`t send a soldier back three or four times. That`s not OK."

- Julianne Moore

Always a foot soldier, never a general. - on the prospect of ever directing a film

- Julie Christie

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

- Orlando Bloom

On his role as a marine in Jarhead: "There`s a quality my character has about not caving in to the physical or mental demands of your job. I really took that to heart. A lot of my relatives have served, and I have respect for what it means to be a soldier. These guys are carrying a very heavy burden. We joke about marines being strict and severe, but would you want a bunch of hippies running around with guns?"

- Peter Sarsgaard

The criminal and the soldier at least have the virtue of being against something or for something in a world where many people have learned to accept a kind of grey nothingness, to strike an unreal series of poses in order to be considered normal.... It`s difficult to say who is engaged in the greater conspiracy - the criminal, the soldier, or us.

- Stanley Kubrick

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn`t kill anybody and he didn`t get anyone killed.

- Andrew Young

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn`t kill anybody and he didn`t get anyone killed.

- Jayne Mansfield

The death of this British soldier in Iraq deeply saddens me. All our thoughts and sympathies are with the family at this very difficult time.

- John Reid

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

- Robert Capa

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

- Trevor Nunn

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

- Benito Mussolini

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

- Chubby Checker

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

- Douglas MacArthur

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.

- Douglas MacArthur

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I`ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

- Douglas MacArthur

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

- Douglas MacArthur

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

- Douglas MacArthur

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.

- Douglas MacArthur

toughest person I`ve ever met in my life my hero, my soldier.

- Jim Kelly

It has been written throughout my career that toughness is my trademark, ... Well, the toughest person I`ve ever met in my life is my hero, my soldier, my son, Hunter. I love you, buddy.

- Jim Kelly

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

- Loretta Lynn

(Years later, the soldiers came again, telling the people to take only what they could carry, and made them cross the Missouri River.) We went to Standing Rock Reservation, and made the best of it, ... We moved 30 miles away from the soldier fort because it was a place of sickness.

- Mary Louise

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

- Richard Perle

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

- Robert E. Lee

Dad worked on a railway as a steward on the dinning cars. He`d been a soldier, he`d been a sailor, and he was a chef in his later years.

- Ronald Biggs

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

If you write a story about a soldier going AWOL and kidnapping a pregnant woman and finally shooting her in the head, it`s called searingly realistic, even though it`s never happened in the history of mankind. Whereas if you write about two people falling in love, which happens about a million times a day all over the world, for some reason or another, you`re accused of writing something unrealistic and sentimental.

- Richard Curtis

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

- Charles Baudelaire

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I`ve been getting into recently.

- Garth Ennis

Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.

- Kelly Miller

This will help the soldier to be able to rely on reach-back consolidated IT locations to get to their CSS (Combat Service Support) software applications.

- Kevin Carroll

I`ve always enjoyed being a soldier. I`ve always enjoyed serving my country. I take great pride with that,

- Scott McKenzie

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

- Thomas Jefferson

Soldier Field, the tradition there with the Chicago Bears ... I think those are neat spots. Like going to Philadelphia or New York, those are rabid fans and hostile environments. It takes tough people to go in there and win.

- John Fox

Too often we forget that when a soldier gives the ultimate sacrifice, there`s a family back home who is suffering, ... This memorial should mean a lot not only for the veterans but also those they left behind. This is a great symbol of community pride.

- Larry Roberts

He was very concerned about his family. But as a soldier, he was ready to step up and do his duty. He truly had the desire to make the world a better place.

- Bob King

If the Europeans want to intervene, that`s their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

- Pat Buchanan

He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.

- Terry Davis

When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

- Mort Walker

The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier`s lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.

- Akrivos Tsolakis

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

- Al Hartkopf

It`s hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier`s death.

- Alan Kearney

This conflict is one thing I`ve been waiting for. I`m well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can`t be a soldier, I`ll help soldiers.

- Alan Kral