Jack O'Connell credited as playing...
Louis Zamperini
- Louis Zamperini: NOW you're praying?
- Phil: I was busy before.
- Louis Zamperini: My mother does that sometimes.
- Phil: Yeah... a lot of people do this.
- Louis Zamperini: He say anything back?
- Phil: Yeah.
- Louis Zamperini: What?
- Phil: He says my bombardier's a dope.
- Louis Zamperini: ...Really?
- Watanabe: [a prisoner hits Louis] Harder!
- Watanabe: [another prisoner hits Louis] HARDER!
- Louis Zamperini: [yelling] HIT ME!
- [another prisoner hits Louis again]
- Phil: Remember that story in LIFE magazine? about Eddie Richenbacker? Him and his crew ran out of fuel over the Pacific and were drifting in a raft for twenty-four days... twenty-four days.
- Louis Zamperini: They made it, right?
- Phil: Yeah... most of them lost their minds, but they made it.
- [first lines]
- Phil: [in cockpit] We are here.
- Cup: [over radio] At 8,000 feet. This is it, boys.
- Phil: [over radio] You got it, Zamp?
- Louis Zamperini: [dialing in bombing scope] Roger.
- Lambert: You hit this one, drinks are on me.
- Louis Zamperini: I ain't going to a bar with you, handsome. You confuse all the broads.
- Mac: [wolf-whistles]
- Phil: Get your cameras, boys. I'm gonna light it up like Christmas.
- [last lines]
- Older Pete: [as an applauding crowd and his loving family finally welcomes him back home after the end of the war] Louie!
- Louis Zamperini: [joyfully embracing his brother] My God, look at you.
- [endearingly embracing his mom as a memorable photo is taken of him with his family and friends]
- Louis Zamperini: Ah, mom.
- Louis Zamperini: 'I'm gonna kill him.
- Fitzgerald: Then they shoot you
- Louis Zamperini: I don't give a damn. Let them shoot me.
- Fitzgerald: That's not how we beat 'em. We beat 'em by making it to the end of the war alive. That's how we do it. That's our revenge.
- Phil: Here's what I believe.
- Phil: You go on living the best you can, and try to have some fun along the way. And then one day, it's over. And there's this angel sitting at the edge of your bed, it looks at you and says, ok, you can ask me all those dumb questions now. Because I got all the answers.
- Louis Zamperini: That's what you believe?
- Phil: Yeah, that's what I believe.
- Louis Zamperini: If I can take it, I can make it.
- Fitzgerald: Precisely!
- Louis Zamperini: My brother Pete used to say that.
- Louis Zamperini: What did you want for breakfast?
- Mac: Your mother's gnocchi.
- Louis Zamperini: Gnocchi for breakfast. Okay.
- Louis Zamperini: So you got your dough...
- Mac: Am I gonna die?
- Louis Zamperini: Maybe.
- Mac: You think tonight?
- Louis Zamperini: Maybe Mac. Maybe.
- Mac: Yes Sir. I think tonight.