No Time for Sergeants (1958)

Myron McCormick: Sgt. Orville C. King

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Quotes 

• [after Will has spent all night cleaning the latrine, Sgt. King is amazed at how beautiful it is] 

  Sergeant King : Wait 'til the Captain sees this. Why he inspects this place like it was an operating room where somebody was gonna cut out his heart. Never in your life have you seen such a guy for stickin' his head right down into things.

  [looks at the commodes] 

  Will Stockdale : You figure he'll like what I done?

  Sergeant King : He'll be a new man. Will, uh, how would you like to be Permanent Latrine Orderly?

  Will Stockdale : Permanent Latrine Orderly?

  Sergeant King : P.L.O.

  Will Stockdale : Gol-lee!

• Sergeant King : Why ain't you dead?

  Will Stockdale : No excuse, sir!

• Will Stockdale : How come we're going up so early sergeant?

  Sergeant King : To break the sound barrier. You gotta sneak up on it when nobody's looking.

• Sergeant King : Look, sonny, how long have you been in the service?

  Irving S. Blanchard : About six hours, I guess. But I had ROTC, though.

  Sergeant King : I suppose they told you it was all efficiency and getting things done and standing at attention and running around. Well I've been in for eighteen years and it ain't like you think it is at all. It's a quiet, peaceful life, if you mind your own business. It's like there was a big lake, nice and calm. I'm in a canoe, you're in another, and the captain's in a canoe and the colonel... and you know what you do if you report somebody or complain about somebody or request something? You make waves.

  Irving S. Blanchard : Well, I thought the captain would want to know if he had a troublemaker in the outfit.

  Sergeant King : Look, sonny, I hate to pull rank on you but for your information you've got the smallest canoe in the whole darn lake. Good night, private.