R. Lee Ermey Quotes

• The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

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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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• The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

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• That’s all I cared about too, was getting it right.

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• It’s been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

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• Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.

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• Kubrick’s films have life – they just never die.

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• I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

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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 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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• I got to write most of everything I said.

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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 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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• I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

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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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