F Lee Ermey Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. I play well with everybody.

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#4. The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

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

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

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

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#8. There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

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#9. 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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#10. This is for fighting, this is for fun.

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#11. 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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#12. I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

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#16. 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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#17. What is your major malfunction?

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#18. I spend a lot of time with my characters.

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

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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

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

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#26. 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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#27. Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

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

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#29. America's trying to do the best for its veterans.

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#30. A day without blood is like a day without sunshine!

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