Libby:
Do you remember when we used to come here in the cool of the evening?
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: Naturally.
Libby: I thought maybe you'd forgotten - so much can happen in a year.
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: So much can happen in a day!
Libby: I suppose so. Were you surprised when they nominated you for mayor?
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: Surprised is not the word for it.
--Eddie Bracken (as Woodrow Truesmith) in Hail the Conquering Hero
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: Naturally.
Libby: I thought maybe you'd forgotten - so much can happen in a year.
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: So much can happen in a day!
Libby: I suppose so. Were you surprised when they nominated you for mayor?
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: Surprised is not the word for it.
--Eddie Bracken (as Woodrow Truesmith) in Hail the Conquering Hero
Sgt. Heppelfinger:
I tell you it'll all blow over. Everything is perfect - except for a couple of details.
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: They hang people for a couple of details!
--Eddie Bracken (as Woodrow Truesmith) in Hail the Conquering Hero
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: They hang people for a couple of details!
--Eddie Bracken (as Woodrow Truesmith) in Hail the Conquering Hero
Sgt. Heppelfinger:
Look, I didn't get you in this.
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: Oh, yes you did. I was gonna hide in the...
Sgt. Heppelfinger: A Marine never hides. That's what Semper Fidelis means: it means "face the music".
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: Well, it does not. It happens to mean "always faithful".
Sgt. Heppelfinger: That's right. Faithful to your mother.
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: It doesn't mean faithful to your mother at all. it means faithful to the Marines.
--Eddie Bracken (as Woodrow Truesmith) in Hail the Conquering Hero
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: Oh, yes you did. I was gonna hide in the...
Sgt. Heppelfinger: A Marine never hides. That's what Semper Fidelis means: it means "face the music".
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: Well, it does not. It happens to mean "always faithful".
Sgt. Heppelfinger: That's right. Faithful to your mother.
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: It doesn't mean faithful to your mother at all. it means faithful to the Marines.
--Eddie Bracken (as Woodrow Truesmith) in Hail the Conquering Hero
Clint Kelly:
But I haven't got a band!
Jojo Jordan: [referring to D. Arnaz] With the possible exception of one or two of us, who has ?
--Eddie Bracken (as Jojo Jordan) in Too Many Girls
Jojo Jordan: [referring to D. Arnaz] With the possible exception of one or two of us, who has ?
--Eddie Bracken (as Jojo Jordan) in Too Many Girls
Bert:
I went out with a girl once that told me to go jump in the lake... When I got back, she was gone.
--Eddie Bracken (as Bert Sparks) in Caught in the Draft
--Eddie Bracken (as Bert Sparks) in Caught in the Draft
Chuck Donovan:
Night school. You've just gotten off the boat and you want to become a citizen so you enroll in her class.
Bob Randolph: I already am a citizen.
Chuck Donovan: So, you'll vote twice.
--Eddie Bracken (as ) in The Girl from Jones Beach
Bob Randolph: I already am a citizen.
Chuck Donovan: So, you'll vote twice.
--Eddie Bracken (as ) in The Girl from Jones Beach
Jojo Jordan:
Well, I'm not exactly wonderful, but I'm awfully attractive in a dynamic sort of way.
--Eddie Bracken (as Jojo Jordan) in Too Many Girls
--Eddie Bracken (as Jojo Jordan) in Too Many Girls
Orville Wingait:
That actor! She's in love with that actor!
--Eddie Bracken (as Orville Wingait) in Summer Stock
--Eddie Bracken (as Orville Wingait) in Summer Stock
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith:
[after hearing that the town wants to build a statue of him] What do I do now?
Sgt. Heppelfinger: Well, you just let it blow over.
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: Did you ever see a statue blow over?
--Eddie Bracken (as Woodrow Truesmith) in Hail the Conquering Hero
Sgt. Heppelfinger: Well, you just let it blow over.
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith: Did you ever see a statue blow over?
--Eddie Bracken (as Woodrow Truesmith) in Hail the Conquering Hero
Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith:
[eating pancakes for breakfast with the six Marines; Libby enters] Good morning, Libby. Won't you join us in a stack of collision mats - as they say in the good old Marine Corps. - and a cup of jamoke?
--Eddie Bracken (as Woodrow Truesmith) in Hail the Conquering Hero
--Eddie Bracken (as Woodrow Truesmith) in Hail the Conquering Hero
