R. Lee Ermey Quotes

"Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy."
- R. Lee Ermey

"There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: Fact, Veterans)

"Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: Discipline)

"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."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: Money, War, People, Help, Trouble)

"It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: Truth, Fun, Pretty)

"There's a lot of whiners in every crowd."
- R. Lee Ermey

"There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: Past, Training, Years)

"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: Control, Obedience)

"The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: War, Fighting, Nothing, Politicians)

"The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part."
- R. Lee Ermey

"That's all I cared about too, was getting it right."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: Right)

"Kubrick's films have life - they just never die."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: Life)

"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
(Related: God, Conviction)

"The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: News)

"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

"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
(Related: Mistakes, Past)

"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."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: Ceremony, Day, End)

"I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: Time)

"I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967."
- R. Lee Ermey

"I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: People)

"I got to write most of everything I said."
- R. Lee Ermey

"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."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: American, Force, Islands, Running, Space)

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

"America's trying to do the best for its veterans."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: America, Trying, Veterans)

"Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: America, Veterans, Vietnam)

"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
(Related: Canada, Draft, Respect)

"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
(Related: Time, Day)

"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
(Related: Control)

"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."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: Old, Training, Vietnam)

"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
(Related: Graduation, Day, End)