George Luz quotes from Band of Brothers

Luz

[imitating Col. Sink] Now remember boys: flies spread disease. So keep yours closed.

Sobel

[Addressing whole platoon.] You people are at the position of attention! [To Perconte] Private Perconte, have you been blousing your trousers over your boots like a paratrooper?

Perconte

No, sir.

Sobel

Then explain the creases at the bottom.

Perconte

No excuse, sir.

Sobel

Volunteering for the Parachute Infantry is one thing, Perconte, but you've got a long way to prove that you belong here. Your weekend pass is revoked. [moves on] Name?

Luz

Luz, George.

Sobel

[examining Luz's M1 rifle] Dirt in the rear sight aperture. Pass revoked. [walks over to another soldier] When did you sew on these Chevrons, Sergeant Lipton?

Lipton

Yesterday, sir.

Sobel

[displays a loose thread pulled from the stripe] Long enough to notice this – revoked.

Lipton

Sir. [Sobel walks over to another soldier.]

Sobel

Name.

Malarkey

Malarkey, Donald G!

Sobel

Malarkey is slang for "bullshit," isn't it? [takes his rifle]

Malarkey

Yes, sir!

Sobel

Rust on the butt-plate hinge spring, Private Bullshit – revoked. [tosses his rifle at Malarkey and moves on] Name.

Liebgott

Liebgott, Joseph, D, sir.

Sobel

Rusty bayonet, Liebgott. You want to kill Germans?

Liebgott

Yes, sir.

Sobel

[knocks his helmet with the bayonet] Not with this. [to the whole platoon] I will not take this rusty piece of shit to war, and I will not take you to war in your condition. [throws bayonet to the ground] Now thanks to these men and their infractions, every man in the company who had a weekend pass has lost it. Change into your PT gear. We're running Currahee.

Perconte

How far do you think we're going?

Luz

Jesus Christ, Frank, I don't know. Until they tell us to stop!

Luz

Lieutenant, are you going to shoot lefty all night? [Comptom looks at him]

Toye

Hey, c'mon.

Luz

I'm just curious cause he's right-handed.

[switches hands] George! What would I do without George Luz?

A lot of you guys get injured?

Martin

It's called "wounded", peanut. Injured is when you fall out of a tree or something.

Muck

Don't worry. There's enough crap flying around here, you're bound to get dinged sometime. Almost every single one of these guys' been hit at least once. Except for Alley, he's a two-timer. He landed on broken glass in Normandy and got peppered by a potato masher in Holland. Now, Bull, he got a piece of an exploding tank in Holland. Now, George Luz, here...has never been hit. You're one lucky bastard.

Luz

Takes one to know one, Skip.

Muck

Eh, consider us blessed. Now, Liebgott, that skinny little guy? He got pinged in the neck in Holland. Now, right next to him, that other skinny little guy, is Popeye. He got shot in his scrawny little butt in Normandy. And, uh, Buck got shot in his rather large butt in Holland.

Penkala

Yeah, kind of an Easy Company tradition, getting shot in the ass.

Muck

Hey, even 1st Sgt. Lipton over there. He got a couple of pieces of a tank shell burst in Carentan. One chunk in the face, another chunk almost took out his nuts.

Guarnere

How are those nuts, sarge?

Lipton

Doing fine, Bill...nice of you to ask.

Penkala

[about Buck] "Don't do anything stupid"? Who the hell is he talking to? A bunch of morons who volunteered to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. Can you get any more stupid than that?

Luz

Probably not.

Muck

I swam across the Niagara once.

Penkala

[sarcastically] Yeah.

Muck

I swear! On a bet.

Luz

What, in a barrel?

Muck

No... God... I didn't go over the falls, George. I swam across the river.

Luz

I don't know.

Muck

Ten miles up from the falls. I tell you: that current is damn strong.

Penkala

Oh, yeah.

Muck

Must have carried me at least 2 miles downstream before I got across. But, I got across. Now personally, I didn't think it was all that stupid, but my mom, my sister, Ruth... They gave me all kinds of hell.

Luz

Yeah, I bet, Muck.

Muck

So did Faye. [his girlfriend]

Luz

Aah, sweet Faye Tanner...

Muck

Shut it, George.

Penkala

Well, they had a point - you're an idiot.

Webster

Sergeant Lipton feeling all right?

Luz

He's got pneumonia.

Webster

Sorry to hear that.

Luz

Ah, what are you sorry about? He's alive, got a couch, a goddamn blanket. Snug as a bug.

Luz

I'll tell you one thing about the Krauts; they sure clean up good.

Liebgott

Yup, all you need is a little Mozart.

Nixon

[Joins them] Beethoven.

Liebgott

Sorry, sir?

Nixon

That's not Mozart. That's Beethoven.

Luz

Hey, Janovek, what ya reading?

Um, an article.

Luz

No shit. What's it about?

It's about why we're fightin' the war.

Luz

Why're we fighting the war, Janovek?

It seems the Germans are bad, very bad.

Luz

You don't say. The Germans are bad, huh? [turns to Perconte] Hey, Frank, this guy's reading an article over here that says that the Germans [sarcastic dramatic pause] are bad.