The Longest Day (1962)

Robert Mitchum: Brig. Gen. Norman Cota

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Quotes 

• Brigadier General Norman Cota : I don't have to tell you the story. You all know it. Only two kinds of people are gonna stay on this beach: those that are already dead and those that are gonna die. Now get off your butts. You guys are the Fighting 29th.

• Brigadier General Norman Cota : Well, Tom?

  Col. Thompson : We're ready. As ready as we'll ever be.

  Brigadier General Norman Cota : It'll work. It's *got* to work.

  Col. Thompson : We're getting murdered here! We might as well move inland and get murdered!

• [Last Lines] 

  Brigadier General Norman Cota : Okay, run me up the hill, son.

• Brigadier General Norman Cota : I say go. Go. Weather or no weather.

• Col. Thompson : Next stop: Normandy.

  Brigadier General Norman Cota : God help us now.

• Brigadier General Norman Cota : I need you to blow that roadblock for me, son. When I give the word everything pops at once.