This cache is part of my Movie "Quotes" series. I love the movies and as such have filled my head with numerous famous and not so famous movie quotes, be they one-liners or conversations. Many quotes are so well known that you can name the movie, star, and in some cases relate a story around the quote.
Often I will be in a conversation with someone or a situation where an appropriate movie quote will pop into my head and I'll speak the lines. Friends who share the same movie affliction will instantly understand. Others will most often say, "that is really right for this situation." I have to beg off creation and cite my sources. So have fun with these - and enjoy the movies!!! I have edited some of the quotes to take out any offensive words.
MASH (stylized as M*A*S*H on the film's poster and art) is a 1970 American satirical black comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner, Jr., based on Richard Hooker's novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. It is the only feature film in the M*A*S*H franchise and became one of the biggest films of the early 1970s for 20th Century Fox.
The film depicts a unit of medical personnel stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War; the subtext is about the Vietnam War.[4] It stars Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould, with Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois, Gary Burghoff, Roger Bowen, Michael Murphy and, in his film debut, professional football player Fred Williamson. The film inspired the popular and critically acclaimed television series M*A*S*H, which ran from 1972 to 1983.
Among the many memorable lines are the interchanges between Hawkeye, Trapper John and anyone else as witnessed by the blow quote when the doctors are summoned to Japan for their medical expertise.
Capt. Peterson: [hostile tone of voice] What are you two HOODLUMS doing in this hospital?
Hawkeye Pierce: Ma'am, we are surgeons and we are here to operate. We just waiting for a starting time. That's all.
Capt. Peterson: You can't even go near a patient until Col. Merrill says its ok and he's still out to lunch.
Trapper John: Look, mother, I want to go to work in one hour. We are the Pros from Dover and we figure to crack this kid's chest and get out to golf course before it gets dark. So you go find the gas-passer and you have him pre-medicate this patient. Then bring me the latest pictures on him. The ones we saw must be 48 hours old by now. Then call the kitchen and have them rustle us up some lunch.
[turns to Hakweye]
Trapper John: Ham and eggs will be all right.
[turns back to Capt. Peterson]
Trapper John: Steak would be even better. And then give me at least ONE nurse who knows how to work in close without getting her t##s in my way.
Capt. Peterson: [outraged] Oh!
[turns to leave and bumps into Nurse]
Capt. Peterson: Oh! Fool!
[stomps out of ward]
Nurse: How do you want your steak cooked?