M*A*S*H (TV series) Quotes
M*A*S*H (TV series)
Top Quotes
“Alan Alda as Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (seasons 1–11)”
“Internet Movie Database (IMDb): M*A*S*H”
“Jamie Farr as Maxwell Q. Klinger (seasons 1–11)”
“Harry Morgan as Sherman Tecumseh Potter (seasons 4–11)”
“McLean Stevenson as Henry Braymore Blake (seasons 1–3)”
“Loretta Swit as Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (seasons 1–11)”
“Gary Burghoff as Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly (seasons 1–8)”
“Larry Linville as Franklin Marion "Frank" Burns (seasons 1–5)”
“Mike Farrell as B. J. Hunnicutt (replaced Trapper; seasons 4–11)”
“George Morgan as John Patrick Francis Mulcahy (pilot episode)”
“David Ogden Stiers as Charles Emerson Winchester III (seasons 6–11)”
“Wayne Rogers as John Francis Xavier "Trapper John" McIntyre (seasons 1–3)”
“William Christopher as John Patrick Francis Mulcahy (seasons 1–11)”
“I do get letters from the clergy, and [I've received] some very nice comments … from spiritual leaders saying that M*A*S*H seems to have made a contribution [to changing Americans' attitudes toward war]. And I like to think that's true.”
“I'm feeling like I have another couple of years to become most fully and most honestly myself with this group of people, because I'm not an actual joiner; I'm essentially a private person. And now … I'm beginning to see the power and the potential in committing yourself to a group, and that it doesn't threaten your individuality, it teaches you about it.”
“I don't know [if M*A*S*H has made me a better actor], but I know it's made me a better human being. … I think there's a nobility about … what [the show] attempts to do, and there's a nobility about the people who are playing these parts. And the longer we've been together, the more familiar we are with one another, the deeper we've gone … into ourselves, so that when we're playing scenes with one another, it's … the two characters plus the two people who are wearing the clothes … of those characters.”
“I'm always astounded by the number of cameras that point at us when we talk about this show, and by the amount of interest. And I'm astounded by the breadth and depth of the [reach] that television is capable of, evidenced by the telegrams that were read at the beginning of this conference, [from] Secretary Kissinger and President Ford and President Reagan. It moves me to the realization that television is a great medium for bringing people together, because that's probably the [only] time I will ever agree with any of the three of them.”
“The heroes [in M*A*S*H] have not been—for the most part—your career Army people. Only Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) has the career …. The others tend to attain their heroism … through an anti-military point of view. … We've tried to be fair about [our depictions of officers and of the United States Armed Forces]. … [W]hile we were depicting [the Korean War], … many of [our viewers] identified with [the show because of the Vietnam War].”