Jeremy Davies credited as playing...
Corporal Upham
- Lieutenant Dewindt: FUBAR.
- Private Reiben: FUBAR.
- Sergeant Horvath: FUBAR.
- Captain Miller: FUBAR
- Private Jackson: Y'all got that right.
- Corporal Upham: I looked up "fubar" in the German dictionary and there's no fubar in here.
- Private Reiben: What's the saying? "If God's on our side, who the hell could be on theirs?"
- Upham: "If God is for us, who could be against us?"
- Private Reiben: Yeah, what'd I say?
- 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?
- Captain Miller: Twenty degrees. Anybody wanna answer that?
- Medic Wade: 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, shit, I bet even the captain's got a mother.
- [he turns and looks at Miller, who has a bemused expression on his face]
- Private Reiben: Well, maybe not the captain, but the rest of us got mothers.
- Upham: "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die."
- Mellish: La-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la. What the fuck is that supposed to mean, Corporal, huh? We're all supposed to die, is that it?
- Captain Miller: Upham's talking about our duty as soldiers.
- Upham: Yes, sir.
- Captain Miller: We all have orders, and we have to follow 'em. That supersedes everything, including your mothers.
- Upham: Yes, sir. Thank you sir.
- Private Reiben: Even if you think the mission's FUBAR, sir?
- Captain Miller: *Especially* if you think the mission's FUBAR.
- [talking about Capt. Miller]
- Corporal Upham: Reiben, so you even know where he went to school?
- Private Reiben: Cap'n didn't go to school, they assembled him at OSC outta spare body parts of dead GIs.
- Private Caparzo: You gotta pay attention to detail, I know exactly where he's from and I know exactly what he did 'cuz I pay attention to detail.
- Private Jackson: Hey, Upham, careful you don't step in the bullshit!
- Corporal Upham: [Wade lying down, shivering with pain and anguish, after being shot through the stomach] Tell us what to do... tell us how to fix you.
- Captain Miller: What can we do Wade? Tell us what to do.
- Medic Wade: [Wade still shivering] I could use some... I could use a little Morphine.
- Captain Miller: [Capt. Miller to Sergeant Horvath] Okay... Give it to him... Give it him!
- Corporal Upham: I think this is all good for me, sir.
- Captain Miller: Really? How is 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."
- Captain Miller: I guess that's Emerson's way of finding the bright side.
- Corporal Upham: Caparzo, is it?
- Private Caparzo: Hey Corporal, drop dead!
- Corporal Upham: Got you.
- Private Caparzo: And another thing, every time you salute the Captain, you make him a target for the Germans. Do us a favor. Don't do it. Especially when I'm standing next to him, capisci?
- Corporal Upham: Uh, capisci.
- 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.
- Corporal Upham: It's really a melancholy song. At the beginning of the song, she says, And then one day, you left. You left me, And I've been desperate ever since, I see you all over the sky, I see you all over the Earth.
- Sergeant Horvath: Jesus, Upham, any more songs like this, the Krauts aren't going to have to shoot me. I'm just going to slit my own wrists.
- Private Reiben: You know, you're a strange bird, Upham.
- Corporal Upham: Sorry, it's Edith Piaf, you know.
- Upham: Sir, there are a lot of Germans in Neuville.
- Captain Miller: You have a problem with that, Corporal?
- Upham: No, sir. Just if you consider I've never been in combat, sir. I make maps and I translate. And that's...
- Captain Miller: I need someone who speaks French and German.
- Upham: Yes, sir.
- Captain Miller: My two guys were killed.
- Upham: Yes, sir. It's just that I haven't held a weapon since basic training, sir.
- Captain Miller: Did you fire the weapon in basic training?
- Upham: Yes, sir.
- Captain Miller: Well, then, get your gear.