R. Lee Ermey quotes
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“Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.”
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“The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.”
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“I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.”
-- R. Lee ErmeySource : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. November 28, 2005.
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“I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.”
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“Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.”
-- R. Lee ErmeySource : "'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel' set visit: Q&A with R. Lee Ermey". Group interview, www.horror.com. November 21, 2005.
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“There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.”
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“For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.”
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“I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.”
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“Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.”
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“There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.”
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“When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.”
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“In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.”
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“I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.”
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“I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.”
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“I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.”
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“America's trying to do the best for its veterans.”
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“Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.”
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“Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.”
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“It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.”
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“Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.”
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“I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.”
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“That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.”
-- R. Lee ErmeySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.”
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“I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.”
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“Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.”
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“Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.”
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“What is your major malfunction?”
-- R. Lee ErmeySource : R. Lee Ermey (2013). “Gunny's Rules: How to Get Squared Away Like a Marine”, p.88, Regnery Publishing
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“Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.”
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“Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.”
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“There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.”
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“I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.”
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“Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.”
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“This is for fighting, this is for fun.”
-- R. Lee ErmeySource : "Full Metal Jacket", 1987.
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“A day without blood is like a day without sunshine!”
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“Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.”
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“We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!”
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“I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.”
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“You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.”
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“I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.”
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“I play well with everybody.”
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“I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.”
-- R. Lee ErmeySource : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. November 28, 2005.
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“Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.”
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