Sharts Quotes in Glory (1989)

John Rawlins: Where about you from?

Trip: I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

Sharts: What ya doin' since then?

Trip: I run for President.

[laughter]

Trip: I didn't win though.

Sgt. Mulcahy: Left! Right! Left!

Sgt. Mulcahy: [to Sharts]

Sgt. Mulcahy: What the hell are you doing, boy? Don't you know your right from your left?

Sharts: N-n-no, sah.

Sgt. Mulcahy: No? How many here do not know right from left?

Sgt. Mulcahy: [Half a dozen hands are raised. Mutters] Jesus have pity.

Sgt. Mulcahy: [Smacks Sharts in the chest] THIS is your FRONT!

Sgt. Mulcahy: [slaps his back]

Sgt. Mulcahy: THIS is your REAR!

Sgt. Mulcahy: [stomps on his right foot]

Sgt. Mulcahy: THIS is your RIGHT!

Sgt. Mulcahy: [goes to stomp on his left foot]

Sgt. Mulcahy: And THIS...!

Sharts: [Sharts lifts his foot out of the way]

Sgt. Mulcahy: Now you're learnin', boy-o!

Sharts: I wonder when they gonna give us the blue suits.

Trip: [laughs] Where you from, boy?

Sharts: South Carolina.

Trip: South Carolina? Well, then you ought to know better than that, boy.