No Time for Sergeants (1958 film) Quotes

No Time for Sergeants (1958 film) is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . No Time for Sergeants ended in 1970.

It features Mervyn LeRoy as producer, Ray Heindorf in charge of musical score, and Harold Rosson as head of cinematography.

No Time for Sergeants (1958 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of No Time for Sergeants (1958 film) is 119 minutes long. No Time for Sergeants (1958 film) is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

The cast includes: Andy Griffith as Will Stockdale, Nick Adams as Benjamin B. Whitledge, Will Hutchins as Lt. George Bridges, Nick Adams as Will Stockdale, Benjamin B. Whitledge, and Howard Smith as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush.

No Time for Sergeants (1958 film) Quotes

Nick Adams as Benjamin B. Whitledge

• (Unnamed) "General Bush has just taken his place on the reviewing stand. And now the four lieutenants who braved the atomic blast and will receive the air medal are bravely mounting the platform."
• (Nick Adams) "The lieutenants? They're alive. They're gettin' medals. They're heroes."
• (Andy Griffith) "Gollee."
• (Nick Adams) "If we'd a stayed on the plane, we'd a been heroes."
• (Unnamed) "It is a solemn moment, ladies and gentlemen. The many visiting dignitaries standing at attention; the flag at half-mast in honor of the two men who gave their lives in Operation Prometheus: Privates Stockdale and Whitledge."
• (Nick Adams) "Stockdale and Whitledge?"
• (Unnamed) "Yes. Stockdale and Whitledge -- names that will live as long as men are free."
• (Andy Griffith) "We are heroes, Ben."
• (Nick Adams) "But we ain't dead."
• (Andy Griffith) "Well, that makes it even better don't it?"
• (Nick Adams) "They think we're heroes and we're a couple of rotten, no-good deserters."
• (Andy Griffith) "Gollee, will they be surprised."
• (Nick Adams) "They'll kill us; that's what they'll do; they'll kill us."

• (Nick Adams) "You ever had R.O.T.C.?"
• (Andy Griffith) "No -- , but Irvin did. Close to a year of it. He's so 'ornary I think he still might have a touch of it."
• (Nick Adams) "No, Will. R.O.T.C. ain't a disease, it's trainin' -- Reserve, Officer's, Training -- ,uh -- Corporation."

• (Nick Adams) "Every man in my whole family's been in the infantry, clear back to my great-grampa. You know what he done?"
• (Nick Adams) "Fought with Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville, that's what."
• (Andy Griffith) "Licked him good, too, I bet."

Will Hutchins as Lt. George Bridges

• (Will Hutchins) "Prepare for landing."
• (Navigator) "This is NOT a Seaplane."

Howard Smith as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush

• (Howard Smith) "What's the matter with the other "hero"? He keeps saying he's sorry and that he only has one life to give for his county."
• (Andy Griffith) "He figures you all brought us out here to get shot."
• (Howard Smith) "Shot."
• (Howard Smith) "Ridicules, all these witnesses Vernon? Take a smoke."

Andy Griffith as Will Stockdale

• (Unnamed) "I think that I would rather live in the rottenest pig sty in Tennessee or Alabama than the fanciest mansion in all of Georgia. How about that?"
• (Andy Griffith) "Well, sir -- I think where you wanna live is your business."

• (Andy Griffith) "Somebody brung their trumpet."

• (Unnamed) "Now then; your father. Living?"
• (Andy Griffith) "Yes, sir."
• (Unnamed) "Do you get along with him okay?"
• (Andy Griffith) "Yes, sir."
• (Unnamed) "Does he ever beat you?"
• (Andy Griffith) "You bet."
• (Unnamed) "Hard?"
• (Unnamed) "And how. Boy, there ain't nobody can beat like my pa can."
• (Unnamed) "So this is where the antagonism comes from."
• (Unnamed) "You, uh, you hate your father don't you?"
• (Andy Griffith) "No. Hey, I got a uncle I hate though. Ever time he comes out to the house, he's always wantin' to rassle with the mule. And the mule gets all wore out -- and he gets all wore out. Well, I, I don't really hate him, though; it's just that I ain't exactly partial to him."
• (Unnamed) "Did I ask you about your uncle?"
• (Andy Griffith) "I thought you wanted to talk about hatin' people."

• (Unnamed) "Why ain't you dead?"
• (Andy Griffith) "No excuse, sir."

• (Andy Griffith) "Hey, Ben. Maybe you'll get to like the Air Force. Zoomin' all over the sky; and shouting, "Roger" and "Wilco" and everything. Maybe it won't be so bad."
• (Nick Adams) "Bad? You know what they call men in the Air Force?"
• (Nick Adams) "Air man. Like somethin' out of a dang funny book. Air man. How you gonna like it when somebody calls you "Air man"?"
• (Andy Griffith) "By dog, I just don't think I'll stand for it."

• (Unnamed) "Do you get along alright with your mother?"
• (Andy Griffith) "No, sir, I can't hardly say that I do --"
• (Unnamed) "Oh, I see. She's very strict with you; she's always hovering over you, hmm?"
• (Andy Griffith) "No, sir, just the opposite."
• (Unnamed) "Oh, she's never there?"
• (Andy Griffith) "That's right."
• (Unnamed) "And you, uh, you resent this neglect, don't you?"
• (Andy Griffith) "Well, no, sir. I don't resent nothin'."
• (Unnamed) "Ah, come now, son. Now don't be bashful; that's a common situation. Does, uh, she beat you?"
• (Andy Griffith) "Naw."
• (Unnamed) "Oh, so defensive. Well, it's not easy to talk about your mother, is it?"
• (Andy Griffith) "No sir, see, she died when I was born."

• (Andy Griffith) "How 'bout that. It's some kind of real big ceremony."
• (Nick Adams) "Look -- the flag; it's at half-mast. It's a funeral ceremony, that's what it is. Lt. Bridges and them others they didn't get out of the plane. Now we got that on our heads, too."
• (Andy Griffith) "Aw, now, Ben, they warn't so easy-going they wouldn't know they was on fire."

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