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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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" Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons. "

R. Lee Ermey

No Time

Week

Off

" I spend a lot of time with my characters. "

" Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps. "

" I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys. "

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

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

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

R. Lee Ermey

Bad News

Motivated

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

R. Lee Ermey

Loved

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

" 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. "

" I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap. "

R. Lee Ermey

Less

Less Is More

" 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. "

R. Lee Ermey

End Of The Day

Graduation

" 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. "

" I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough. "

R. Lee Ermey

Never

Happy

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

" 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! "

R. Lee Ermey

Out

Even

" I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America. "

" It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth. "

" There's a lot of whiners in every crowd. "

" It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. "

R. Lee Ermey

Firm

God

" 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. "

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

R. Lee Ermey

Problem

Jumps

" Kubrick's films have life - they just never die. "

" Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control. "

" 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. "