Alex Penkala quotes from Band of Brothers

Penkala

I don't want to go back to no aid station!

Well, you're in luck, we ain't got no aid station! Penkala, scissors. I need scissors. You got scissors?

Penkala

What the hell I need scissors for?

Got your aid kit? Right, well, you don't need this. Not yet. I do.

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.