The Sergeant [choking the German male nurse who kissed him on the mouth]
I can understand you being horny and all, Fritz... but you have bad breath.
Played by Lee Marvin 
The Big Red One (1980) · 13 quotes
The Big Red One (1980) · 13 quotes
Most-quoted character in The Big Red One (1980): in 8 of its 13 quotes
A line from The SergeantYou're going to live, even if I have to blow your brains out.
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Johnson [the troop stops before a memorial]
Would you look at how fast they put the names of all our guys who got killed?
The Sergeant That's a World War One memorial.
Johnson But the name's are the same.
The Sergeant They always are.
Kaiser Did I kill the guy that killed me?
The Sergeant Yes.
Griff I can't murder anybody.
The Sergeant We don't murder; we kill.
Griff It's the same thing.
The Sergeant The hell it is, Griff. You don't murder animals; you kill 'em.
The Sergeant Killing insane people is not good for public relations.
Griff Killing sane people is okay?
The Sergeant That's right.
Johnson [concerning a woman in labor]
How do you say "push" in French?
The Sergeant Poussez.
Johnson [to woman]
Pussy! Pussy! Pussy!
The Sergeant [the Sergeant affixes a cloth red '1' to his uniform. The Captain is drinking from a bottle]
What do you think?
The Captain What the hell is it?
The Sergeant It's a "one". First Infantry Division. The Red One; think General Pershing will like it?
The Captain Oh, sure.
The Sergeant I got the idea from the cap of a Hun I killed.
The Captain When?
The Sergeant About an hour ago
The Captain Did he yell out anything?
The Sergeant Oh, the same old Kaiser stuff, you know, "the war's over," all that junk.
The Captain [the Captain hands him the bottle]
Finish it.
The Sergeant Sir?
The Captain Finish it. The Armistice was signed, at eleven o'clock this morning. The war's been over for four hours. You didn't know it was over.
The Sergeant ...He did.
[narrating]
A quarter of a century later that piece of cloth from a dead Hun's hat had become famous all over the world. It was the insignia of the First Infantry Division. The Fightin' First. The Big Red One.
