Sergeant Major Quotes in Clear and Present Danger (1994)

[Chavez was able to close in on the Sergeant Major by using a cheeseburger wrapper as a decoy]

Sergeant Major: Soldier, how did you get so close to me?

Chavez: Sniper approached the instructor by being a sneaky bastard, Sergeant Major!

Harry: I said 'get fucked', you great beer-sodden bag of shit!

Sergeant-Major: Right, you're all on a charge.

Harry: Well, you'd better make it murder, because I'm gonna knock your fucking head right off.

Sergeant-Major: You lot think you're supermen. Tin heroes, more like.

Sergeant Major: Is there something YOU'D all rather be doing than marching about the square? You'd all rather be at the pictures, I suppose.

[Everyone agrees]

Sergeant Major: Well, off you go.

General: But of course warfare isn't all fun. Right, stop that! It's all very well to laugh at the military, but when one considers the meaning of life, it is a struggle between alternative viewpoints of life itself. And without the ability to defend one's own viewpoint against other, perhaps more aggresive ideologies, then reasonableness and moderation could quite simply disappear. That is why we'll always need an Army, and may God strike me down were it to be otherwise.

Sergeant-Major: Don't stand there gawping! Like you've never seen the hand o' God before!

Sergeant-Major: Squad... CAMP it UP!

[soldiers all chant in unison while mincing about]

Soldiers: Ooh get her! Whoops, I've got your number ducky, you couldn't afford me dear, two three. I'll scratch your eyes out! Don't come the Brigadier bit with us dear, we all know where you've been, you military fairy. Two, three, one, two, three, four, five, six. Whoops! Don't look now girls, the man has just minced in with that jolly colour Sergeant, two three. OOOOH!

Sergeant-Major: [walks on] Right now! Stop that! Silly. And a bit suspect, I think. Time for a cartoon.

[a vicar is attacked by keep-left signs]

Sergeant-Major: Right! Stop that! It's SILLY. Very SILLY indeed! Started off as a nice little idea about old ladies attacking young men, but now it's just got SILLY! His hair's too long for a vicar, too, and you can tell those are not proper keep-left signs! CLEAR OUT, THE LOT OF YOU!

[the vicar and the keep-left signs depart]

Sergeant-Major: Now, I would just like to point out that this film is displaying a distinct tendency to become SILLY. Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do... except, perhaps my wife... and some of her friends. Oh, yes, and Captain Johnson. Come to think of it, most people like a good laugh more than I do, but that's beside the point! I'm warning this film NOT to get SILLY again! Right!

Sergeant-Major: Now, Director, when I say "Cut", cut to the next sketch. Director...

Announcer: [speaking over start of a new sketch; camera pans across city view] This is a frightened city...

Sergeant-Major: [interrupting] Wait for it!

[camera snaps back to starting position and cut to the Major]

Sergeant-Major: Director, Cut!

Announcer: [sketch starts again] This is a frightened city...

Sergeant Major: God is not here today, priest!