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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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• I hate to hear ‘Less is more.’ It’s a crock of crap.

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• I don’t have to be concerned about everybody else’s character.

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• I always love to come to Austin.

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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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• 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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• Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

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• I play well with everybody.

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• I spend a lot of time with my characters.

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• I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

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• I’m never, like I say, I’m never happy, I’m never satisfied, it’s never good enough.

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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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• 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.

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• The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he’s after.

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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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• 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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• There’s a lot of whiners in every crowd.

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• Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

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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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• There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

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R. Lee Ermey (43)

Birth:	24th March, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Ronald Lee Ermey is an American actor, best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full
Metal Jacket. He is a retired U.S. Marine and an honorary Gunnery Sergeant; during his tenure in the U.S. Marine Corps,
he served as a drill instructor. Ermey has often been typecast for the roles of authority figures, such as Mayor Tilman in the Alan Parker film Mississippi Burning, Bill Bowerman in Prefontaine, Sheriff Hoyt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake,
and plastic army men leader Sarge in the Toy Story films.

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