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Goldie Hawn in Private Benjamin (1980)

Quotes

Private Benjamin

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  • Judy Benjamin: I think they sent me to the wrong place.
  • Capt. Doreen Lewis: Uh-huh.
  • Judy Benjamin: See, I did join the army, but I joined a *different* army. I joined the one with the condos and the private rooms.
  • Sgt. L.C. Ross: Everybody up! Everybody, Benjamin!
  • Judy Benjamin: Oh God, you can't mean me. I worked the night shift! Go check out the bathroom, it's FABULOUS.
  • [after sex]
  • Judy Benjamin: Now I know what I've been faking all these years.
  • Henri Tremont: That was your first?
  • Judy Benjamin: And second.
  • Judy Benjamin: My husband had a heart attack and died on our wedding night, while we were making love.
  • Pvt. Mary Lou Glass: Jesus! Benjamin! I don't get it, what do you do after a thing like that?
  • Judy Benjamin: Join the Army!
  • Capt. Doreen Lewis: Benjamin, you are not FIT to wear that uniform.
  • Judy Benjamin: No shit!
  • Mrs. Goodman: Judith. Just one thing. If you can remember. What were Yale's last words?
  • Judy Benjamin: I'm coming.
  • Judy Benjamin: [while she and Henri are standing at the altar] Henri, I know this is a really awkward time to do this, but I wanna break up.
  • Judy Benjamin: What do you want from me? I didn't ask her to punish everybody! Do you think I like schlepping in the rain all day and all night?
  • Pvt. Wanda Winter: Just keep marching, Benjamin.
  • Judy Benjamin: My name is Judy! J-U-D-Y Judy and I'd like somebody to call me by my name! Oh, okay I took my life in my own hands, I made a mistake fine I'm sorry! I'll never do it again! I wanna wear my sandals... I wanna go out to lunch. I wanna be NORMAL again!
  • Sgt. L.C. Ross: Beware, there are mine fields out there. Most of them are inert. However, some are ert.
  • Judy Benjamin: To be truthful with you, I can't sleep in a room with 20 strangers.
  • Capt. Doreen Lewis: Oh dear.
  • Judy Benjamin: And I mean look at this place. The army couldn't afford drapes? I'll be up at the crack of dawn here!
  • Judy Benjamin: Has anybody ever died from basic?
  • Aunt Kissy: I hope my coat's gonna be good enough. I had no idea it was gonna be so chilly.
  • Harriet Benjamin: It's November here, Kissy.
  • Teddy Benjamin: It's November everywhere, genius.
  • Judy Benjamin: Have you seen the bathroom?
  • Capt. Doreen Lewis: Do you think that the latrine... do you think that it's unsanitary?
  • Judy Benjamin: It's disgusting! There are *urinals* in there!
  • Capt. Doreen Lewis: If Patton were alive, he would slap your face!
  • Judy Benjamin: Henri, you are a shmuck.
  • Judy Benjamin: Daddy - Mom just fainted.
  • Judy Benjamin: Don't bad French artists have telephones?
  • Judy Benjamin: [heavenward] Look what we got!
  • Col. Clay Thornbush: I can smell fear in any man and passion in any woman!
  • Capt. Doreen Lewis: I, for one, am not going to sit around with my thumb up my ass while you divulge classified information during the throes of passion.
  • Judy Benjamin: Oh, please, I can barely speak during the throes of passion!
  • Yale Goodman: [on the phone] How long you been married? All right, anything more than 15 years, you lose the house. It's not my rule, that's just the way it is. She won't get the boat. The boat's a male item.
  • Judy Benjamin: Did this bathroom turn out gorgeous?
  • Yale Goodman: This ass is gorgeous.
  • Judy Benjamin: Wheels? Mr. Waxman, I wanted upholstered balls.
  • Yale Goodman: Wait, honey.
  • Judy Benjamin: Yale.
  • Yale Goodman: Wait, wait. Just wait.
  • Judy Benjamin: Yale.
  • Yale Goodman: Lift your back leg.
  • Judy Benjamin: I don't have a back leg. Honey, it's our wedding night. You know, it's not real romantic making love in the sink.
  • Sgt. L.C. Ross: The first thing we'll do is put you through your in-processing. While you are waiting in line for your processing, you will not, I repeat, you will not be flapping your lips.
  • Judy Benjamin: What is this, Hell Week?
  • Sgt. L.C. Ross: No, Benjamin, this - is the Army!
  • Capt. Doreen Lewis: This brassiere isn't regulation, Ross. And neither is this face. Now, you look like a clown, soldier. Clean up your act.
  • Judy Benjamin: Excuse me, sir, is green the only color these come in?
  • Sgt. L.C. Ross: Give me 10 pushups! Start knockin' 'em out!
  • Judy Benjamin: Do you mind if I check into my room first?
  • Sgt. L.C. Ross: Assume the position and hit it! Now!
  • Capt. Doreen Lewis: This is the Army, Benjamin. It's not a sorority house.
  • Col. Clay Thornbush: Your ass is going to Greenland for a reason. I won't let you shoot your mouth off, blemishing my record with innuendo.
  • Judy Benjamin: Innuendo? Try rape.
  • Capt. Doreen Lewis: I know how all you ladies drool over this - this Fonzie character.
  • [tears down a poster of Bob Dylan from a Private's locker]
  • Capt. Doreen Lewis: Not in my outfit. Burn it, Ross.
  • Pvt. Mary Lou Glass: The first time I ever did it was on an overnight hike with my Bible class.
  • Judy Benjamin: If I knew you better, I'd show you my dog tags.
  • Henri Tremont: How much better?
  • Judy Benjamin: There are two bids we recommend: Sergio Devoto's Driving Academy which teaches evasive driving to the chauffeurs of such dignitaries as General Alexander Haig, President Giscard d'Estaing, Mick Jagger.
  • Judy Benjamin: Definitely the most exciting duty a soldier could pull. My M.O.S. is Purchasing Specialist - the one job I've trained for all my life.
  • Judy Benjamin: Greenland? What, penguins? Forget it!
  • Henri Tremont: Stay. I want you to be here when I get back at three o'clock. I'm going to make love to you, and I'll take you to my favorite bistro. And we'll listen to some nice Italian jazz.
  • Capt. Doreen Lewis: Behave yourself, Judy Benjamin or I'll drum your ass out.
  • Henri Tremont: Do you know a lot of tortured artists?
  • Judy Benjamin: Only tortured lawyers.
  • Capt. Doreen Lewis: Nobody stops being a Communist. It's a terminal disease.
  • Judy Benjamin: General Foley, Henri Tremont is not a Communist. He's a gynecologist.
  • Judy Benjamin: You did Claire's *dishes*?

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