The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)

No Time for Sergeants (1955)

Andy Griffith: Will Stockdale

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Quotes 

• Will Stockdale : He *is* sick, Ben. I heard Lucky say it. Irving had ROTC. For a whole year he had it!

• Will Stockdale : It's just that the Infantry is the real soldiers, and the Air Force ain't nothin' but helpers.

• Will Stockdale : [to the captain]  I spend most of my time in the latrines, because Sgt. King said he never seen a man so interested in latrines as you are. You go in there and look at them faucets. I polished 'em so hard they don't say Hot and Cold no more.

• Major : Georgia? Not much of a state, is it?

  Will Stockdale : Well, I don't live all over the state. I just live in this one little place in it.

• Major : How was your childhood?

  Will Stockdale : Well, I was kinda young...

• Major : He whipped you frequently?

  Will Stockdale : There can't nobody beat like my pa can.

  Major : You hate him!

  Will Stockdale : No. I got a uncle I hate, though. Every time he comes out to the house he's always wantin' to rassle the mule. And the mule gets all wore out and he gets all wore out. I don't really hate him, though. It's just that I ain't exactly partial to him.

  Major : Did I ask you about your uncle?

  Will Stockdale : I thought you liked to talk about hatin' people.

• Ben Whitledge : Ain't you never heard of the Women's Air Force?

  Will Stockdale : You mean they got one, too?

  Ben Whitledge : Shore they do.

  Will Stockdale : Against our'n?

• [first lines] 

  Will Stockdale : [to the audience]  Howdy, I'm Will Stockdale. I'm fixin' to tell you some of the things that happened to me in the draft.

• Will Stockdale : [entering the major's office]  Major Psychiatrist?

• Will Stockdale : [toasting]  To Sgt. King, the best dang sergeant in the whole danged Air Force, dang it.

• [last lines] 

  Will Stockdale : [to the camera]  Good night! Good night, pa!

  [runs to catch up with Pvt. King and Ben] 

  Will Stockdale : Hey, wait for me, fellas!