R. Lee Ermey Quotes
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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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it.
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There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.
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My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.
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There isn’t a piece of clothing that is more valuable than you and how you feel about yourself.
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You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.
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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.
