Unbroken Quotes

  • Watanabe: [from trailer] Who is the Olympic Athlete?

    [stares at and hits Louis]

    Watanabe: Don't look at me.

  • Watanabe: [a prisoner hits Louis] Harder!

    Watanabe: [another prisoner hits Louis] HARDER!

    Louis Zamperini: [yelling] HIT ME!

    [another prisoner hits Louis again]

  • Older Pete: If you can take it, you can make it.

  • Cup: Well, this is like sitting in the living room, trying to fly the house.

    Phil: They've been taking parts off this for other planes. We're lucky it's still got an engine.

    Cup: Well, the lieutenant says it's airworthy. It's been certified, he says.

    Phil: ...by Helen Keller.

  • Older Pete: A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • Young Pete: You can do this Lou. You just gotta believe you can.

    Young Louie: I don't believe.

  • Australian POW: This is the end, mates. No one knows you're here... It's best if you just resign to your fate.

  • [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.