71 Quotes by R. Lee Ermey

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I got to write most of everything I said.