Quotes By R. Lee Ermey

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I always love to come to Austin.

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

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.

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.