Ron Livingston credited as playing...
Lewis Nixon
- Richard Winters: [about Nixon's drinking] Nix, what are you going to do in battle?
- Cpt. Nixon: Oh, I have every confidence in my scrounging abilities, and I have a case of Vat 69 hidden in your footlocker.
- Richard Winters: [chuckles, thinks it's a joke. Pauses, realizes that he's not kidding] Really?
- Cpt. Nixon: Oh, yeah.
- Cpt. Nixon: Sobel's a genius. I had a headmaster in prep school who was just like him. I know the type.
- Richard Winters: Lew, Michaelangelo's a genius. Beethoven's a genius.
- Cpt. Nixon: You know a man in this company who wouldn't double-time Currahee with a full pack, just to piss in that man's morning coffee?
- Richard Winters: [Cpt. Nixon won't wake up] Let's go. C'mon, you got 10 minutes.
- Cpt. Nixon: [sleepily] Go away.
- Richard Winters: C'mon, big guy, let's go.
- Cpt. Nixon: Ah, leave me alone!
- Richard Winters: [tossing the contents of a nearby pitcher on Nix' head] Okay...
- Cpt. Nixon: GOD DAMMIT! Ahhh, that's my own PISS, for Christ's sake!
- Cpt. Nixon: [regarding the flower on a dead German soldier] That's edelweiss. It grows in the mountains, above the treeline. Which means he climbed up there to get it. Supposed to be the mark of a true soldier.
- Cpt. Nixon: Hitler's dead.
- Liebgott: Holy shit.
- Cpt. Nixon: Shot himself in Berlin.
- Sgt. Denver 'Bull' Randleman: Is the war over, sir?
- Cpt. Nixon: No. We have orders to Berchtesgaden. We move out in one hour.
- Pvt. David Kenyon Webster: Why? The man's not home. He should have killed himself three years ago. Saved us a lot of trouble.
- Cpt. Nixon: Yeah, he should have. But he didn't.
- Nixon: Division has decided to pluck one officer from each regiment who served in the heroic defense of Bastogne and send them back to the States on a thirty day furlough... get him out banging the drum for the war bonds, that kind of thing. Turns out I've been plucked.
- Richard Winters: Hey, that's fantastic, Lew. Good for you.
- Nixon: Thank you.
- Richard Winters: But how does your leaving help me?
- Nixon: It doesn't. I'm not going. I've already seen the States, I grew up there. That's why I came to Europe. I just wish they told me a war was going on. Anyway, this thing is wasted on me, but I'm sure we could find an officer somewhere in this battalion that could use a long trip home.
- Cpt. Nixon: What do you think about New Jersey?
- Richard Winters: New Jersey?
- Cpt. Nixon: There's a company in Nixon, New Jersey. It's called Nixon Nitration Works.
- Richard Winters: Sounds picturesque.
- Cpt. Nixon: Yeah, well, oddly enough, I know the owners. Probably gonna expect me to make something of myself. I thought maybe I'd drag you along with me.
- Richard Winters: Are you offering me a job?
- Cpt. Nixon: We'll see how you do on your interview, but, you know, a man of your qualifications... I think probably scrape something up commensurate with your current salary level.
- Cpt. Nixon: [about Major Winters] I heard reports about a redheaded eskimo. Thought I'd check it out.
- Richard Winters: [after a bullet ricochets off of Nixon's helmet] NIX!
- Cpt. Nixon: I'm all right! I'm all right... am I all right?
- [looking at Winters annoyed]
- Cpt. Nixon: Stop looking at me like that!
- Cpt. Nixon: What do you think I should write these parents, Dick?
- Richard Winters: Hear what I said, Nix? You've been demoted.
- Cpt. Nixon: Yeah, demoted, gotcha. Because I don't know how to tell them their kids never made it out of the goddamn plane.
- Richard Winters: You tell them what you always tell them: their sons died as heroes.
- Cpt. Nixon: [cynically] You really still believe that?
- Richard Winters: [pauses, considering] Yeah. Yeah, I do.
- [Challenges]
- Richard Winters: Don't you?
- Cpt. Nixon: [chuckles, uncertainly]
- Cpt. Nixon: Who are you?
- 2nd Lt. Henry Jones: 2nd Lt. Henry Jones, sir.
- Cpt. Nixon: Right, our West Pointer. When'd you graduate?
- 2nd Lt. Henry Jones: June 6th, sir.
- Cpt. Nixon: Of last year?
- 2nd Lt. Henry Jones: Yes, D-Day, sir.
- Cpt. Nixon: [laughs] Don't get hurt.
- Richard Winters: Harry, fire's not a good idea.
- Harry Welsh: Just a couple of minutes. We're in a dell.
- Richard Winters: A dell? Like where fairies and gnomes live?
- Cpt. Nixon: I swear I thought I could smell a fire... I DID smell a fire. Are you out of your mind?
- Richard Winters: Well, we're in a dell.
- Cpt. Nixon: Huh?
- Richard Winters: How'd it go? The drop?
- Cpt. Nixon: We took a direct hit over the drop zone. I got out, two others got out.
- Richard Winters: And the rest of the boys?
- Cpt. Nixon: Oh, they blew up in Germany somewhere... Boom.
- Herbert Sobel: What is this? Anybody?
- Cpt. Nixon: Er... it's a can of peaches, Sir.
- Herbert Sobel: Lieutenant Nixon thinks this is a can of peaches. That is incorrect, Lieutenant. Your weekend pass is cancelled. This is United States Army property which was taken without authorization from my mess facility. And I will not tolerate thievery in my unit. Whose footlocker is this?
- Richard Winters: Private Park's, Sir.
- Herbert Sobel: Get rid of him.
- Harry Welsh: I made up my mind, Nix. I got the points, I'm going back to Kitty.
- Cpt. Nixon: Harry, do you really think that Kitty hasn't run off with some 4-F by now?
- Harry Welsh: [laughing] Son of a bitch, that's not even funny...
- Richard Winters: Harry, ignore him.