10 Movie Quotes about Pearl Harbor with Audio

Updated: Jun 3, 2026

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1 Damn it, I'm an American! What makes us different from German-Americans or Italian-Americans? -Pearl Harbor, I guess.

Charlton Heston as Captain Matthew Garth in Midway (1976)

2 Wait and see. We waited. December the 7th, we saw.

Cliff Robertson as Commander Carl Jessop in Midway (1976)

3 Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!

John Belushi as John "Bluto" Blutarsky; John Bluto Blutarsky in Animal House (1978)

4 What's the matter with Einstein? -He thinks I bombed Pearl Harbor.

Dean Martin as Sgt. Puccinelli in At War with the Army (1950)

5 Hey, we're flexible. Pearl Harbor didn't work out, so we got you with tape decks.

Quote from Die Hard (1988)

6 Do you remember what happened just before December 7th? -The Japanese flooded the airways with fake messages. -Yes, these could be carbon copies.

James Coburn as Captain Vinton Maddox; Henry Fonda as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in Midway (1976)

7 Great American hero, from Cleveland, Ohio. Enlisted right after Pearl Harbor. When was Pearl Harbor? Or don't you know that? -December 7th, '41. -What time? -Six o'clock. I was having dinner. -Six o'clock in Berlin. They were having lunch in Cleveland.

William Holden as J.J. Sefton in Stalag 17 (1953)

8 I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor. I miss you more than that movie missed the point and that's an awful lot, girl.

Quote from Team America: World Police

9 I guess Pearl Harbor sucked just a little bit more than I miss you.

Quote from Team America: World Police

10 Pearl Harbor in '32 and '33, Jocko Clark's squadrons proved that Pearl Harbor could be attacked successfully from the air. -And Admiral Logan Ramsey said, predicted, it would happen in detail. -When was that? -In 1937, pal.

Cliff Robertson as Commander Carl Jessop in Midway (1976)