An Officer and a Gentleman quotes

View Quote [when cadet Seeger fails to climb wall] You're one of those girls who couldn't get enough of daddy's attention because he really wanted a son...That's right, walk around, Sugar Britches!

View Quote [After a trainee at attention tells him he comes from Tucson, Arizona] There are only two things come out of Arizona. they are steers and q***rs."

View Quote GySgt. Emil Foley: You can forget it! You're out!
Zack Mayo: Don't you do it! Don't! You... I got nowhere else to go! I got nowhere else to g... I got nothin' else.

View Quote GySgt. Emil Foley: [looks at Mayo's tattoo] Where'd you get this tattoo?
Zack Mayo: Subic Bay, Philippines, sir.
GySgt. Emil Foley: I thought I recognized that work. Be proud of those wings. They're the only one you're leaving here with, Mayo-NAISE.

View Quote Byron Mayo: I'm out at sea three weeks out of every month, and when I'm back at port, I don't have time for this daddy stuff, 'cause that's not who I am.
Young Zack Mayo: That's okay, sir.
Byron: Wait a second, kid, you don't understand. I'm too old for this. I don't care what the Navy says. This is no place to bring up a kid like I told you on the telephone. You're better of at that state school back at Virginia.
Young Zack: I'm never going back there. They treat me like shit.
Byron: Maybe that's not for you to say. Goddamnit, don't look at me that way. What happened to your mother had nothing to do with me.
Young Zack: It did. You said you were gonna come back. You promised.
Byron: Is that what she said? That's a female lie. That's bullshit! That a lie!
Young Zack: I found your letters. I read them right after she did it. You said you were gonna come back for us. You said you loved her, and she believed you. You're a liar!

View Quote Lynette Pomeroy: [last lines] Way to go, Paula! Way to go!

View Quote Sid Worley: Lynette, marry me. Make me the happiest man in the whole world.
Lynette Pomeroy: I'm sorry, Sid, but I don't wanna marry you. I really like you. We've had ourselves some really great times, but I thought you understood. I want to marry a pilot. I want to live my life overseas. The wife of an aviator...[bitterly] Damn you! Goddamn you! Nobody DOR's after 11 weeks! NOBODY!

View Quote I don't believe what I'm seein'. Where've you been all your lives? At an orgy? Listening to Mick Jagger and bad-mouthin' our country, I'll bet!

View Quote GySgt. Emil Foley: Mayo, I want your D.O.R.
Zack Mayo: No, sir. You can kick me outta here, but I ain't quitting.
GySgt. Emil Foley: Get into your fatigues, Mayo. By the end of this weekend, you'll quit.

View Quote [upon graduation]
GySgt. Emil Foley: Congratulations, Ensign Mayo.
Zack Mayo: Thank you, sir.
GySgt. Emil Foley: Gunnery Sgt, Ensign Mayo, sir. [salutes]
Zack Mayo: I'll never forget you.
GySgt. Emil Foley: [with a straight face] Get the hell out of here.

View Quote Paula Porkrifki: You know something, you ain't nothing special. You got no manners, you treat women like whores, and if you ask me, you got ne chance of being no officer.

View Quote Sid Worley: Look, Zack. It's them. Holy shit. Look at them bodacious set of ta's ta's.

View Quote Zack Mayo: You didn't kick him out, did you? Wait, sir! Didn't he tell you what he's been going through?
GySgt. Emil Foley: It doesn't matter what he's been going through; that's what bartenders are for. What does matter is that he freaked out for some reason at twenty-five thousand feet, and that can happen. Period.
Zack Mayo: There's this girl that he's gotten pregnant, and she's putting him through hell, sir.
Sid Worley: He's right, Zack. It doesn't matter.
Zack Mayo: Just like that? It's all over? With less than two weeks to go, you're out?
GySgt Emil Foley: It can still happen to you too, Mayo-naise.
Zack Mayo: I am talking to you, mother****er!
GySgt. Emil Foley: What did you call me?

View Quote Zack Mayo: Sir, this officer candidate request permission to see you in private... sir.
GySgt. Emil Foley: [gently] Mayo, the whole class already knows about Candidate Worley, and we're sorry.
Zack Mayo: Oh, I'm sure you are.

View Quote Subic Street Thug: Akin na pera mo! ["Give me your money!" in Tagalog]
Young Zack Mayo: But I have no money!
Subic Street Thug: Bullshit! [punches Mayo in the face. Thugs take Mayo's wallet]