You can be the heroes, the guys with fruit salad on your chest. Me, I'm staying put. And I'm gonna make myself as comfortable as I can.

— J.J. Sefton (William Holden)

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8 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:26:54.471 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Listen, Sefton!

- You listen to me!

- What do you think the chances are of getting out of here?

- And let's say you make it to Switzerland. Let's say to the States. So what? They ship you out to the Pacific, slap you in another plane, you get shot down again. Only this time you wind up in a Japanese prison camp. That is, if you're lucky.

- Well, I'm no escape artist.

- Cigar, Cookie.

- You can be the heroes, the guys with fruit salad on your chest. Me, I'm staying put. And I'm gonna make myself as comfortable as I can.

- And if it takes a little trading with the enemy to get me some food or a better mattress, that's okay by Sefton.

- Why, you crud. This war's gonna be over someday. Then what do you think we'll do to Kraut-kissers like you?

- That's enough!

- At ease. At ease. At ease. At ease. Here's Marko.

- All right, break it off down there. At ease for the news.

- All right, at ease.

[...]

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