Quotes By R. Lee Ermey

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

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.

I always love to come to Austin.

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.

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

I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

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

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 got to write most of everything I said.

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

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

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

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