Brendan Fraser credited as playing...
Alden Pyle
- Alden Pyle: Have you had a lot of women, Thomas?
- Thomas Fowler: You start out by being promiscuous and end up like your grandfather... faithful to one woman.
- Thomas Fowler: I have never thought of myself as a correspondent, just a reporter. I offer no point of view, I take no action, I don't get involved. I just report what I see.
- Alden Pyle: But you must have an opinion.
- Thomas Fowler: Even an opinion is a form of action.
- Thomas Fowler: [incensed on Alden's part in a bombing] Doesn't it bother you?
- Alden Pyle: [Distraught] What I saw made me disgusted, but if it keeps out the communists it's necessary.
- Thomas Fowler: I drive through the streets, and I care not a damn, The people they stare, and they ask who I am.
- Alden Pyle: And if I should chance to run over a cad, I can pay for the damage if ever so bad.
- Alden Pyle: [from the trailer] Are you married?
- Thomas Fowler: Yes
- [points to Phuong]
- Thomas Fowler: ... But not to her!
- Thomas Fowler: [referring to Phuong] Are you married yet?
- Alden Pyle: No, I figured I'd wait until we got home and do it properly.
- Thomas Fowler: You don't mind living here improperly?
- Alden Pyle: [with a flash of annoyance] It's hard to talk to you if you're going to be so cynical.
- Thomas Fowler: [referring to General The] He tried to kill you on the road to Saigon.
- Alden Pyle: No Thomas, he tried to kill you.
- Thomas Fowler: Liberty is a western word. How do you define it for the Vietnamese?
- Alden Pyle: The freedom to choose.
- Thomas Fowler: OK, you give them that, they vote and they elect Ho Chi Minh.