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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If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.
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Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.
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I don't believe in stardom or in the number game. What I concentrate more is on my work and how I can improve my character.
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The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
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I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.
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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.
