R. Lee Ermey Quotes

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• 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.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Hate, Drill Sergeant, Jackets

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• 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.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Mistake, Believe, Past

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is your major malfunction?

  R. Lee Ermey

  Malfunction, Majors

  R. Lee Ermey (2013). “Gunny's Rules: How to Get Squared Away Like a Marine”, p.88, Regnery Publishing

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• 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

  Uncles, Conviction, Uncle Sam

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A day without blood is like a day without sunshine!

  R. Lee Ermey

  Sunshine, Blood

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• Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Marine, Discipline, Marine Life

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• This is for fighting, this is for fun.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Fun, Fighting

  "Full Metal Jacket", 1987.

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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 Corps because of something that I said or did.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Kids, Marine, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  R. Lee Ermey

  Hate, Less Is More, I Hate

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• Try as you may, you can never defy love.

  R. Lee Ermey

  True Love, Trying, May

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• 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.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Real, Guy, Watches

  "'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Prequel' set visit: Q&A with R. Lee Ermey". Group interview, www.horror.com. November 21, 2005.

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• Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.

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  True Love, Doubt, Abandoned

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

  R. Lee Ermey

  Character, Concerned

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. November 28, 2005.

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

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  Never Good Enough, Good Enough, Enough

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. November 28, 2005.

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

  R. Lee Ermey

  Crowds, Whiners

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  R. Lee Ermey

  Tools, Intimidation, Instructors

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

  R. Lee Ermey

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Bags, Scum, Canada

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I play well with everybody.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Play, Wells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Order, Needs, Actors

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• 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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  War, People, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  Fall, Character, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  R. Lee Ermey

  News, Motivated, Instructors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  R. Lee Ermey

  People, Role Models, Roles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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