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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When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.
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I was sort of a loner as a kid, so radio was where I turned for companionship. I loved the music and how the DJs talked about the artists and used words to paint pictures to evoke emotion.
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Making the ordinary potentially magical is what film should be all about.
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You always have to know that you are going to leave everything on the pitch, every drop of sweat, to help the team win the game.
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And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.
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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.
