R. Lee Ermey Quotes

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

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

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.

I always love to come to Austin.

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.

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

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.

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

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

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

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.

For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

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

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.

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

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

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

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.

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

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

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

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

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

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.