R. Lee Ermey Quotes
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
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People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my university education with my savings. I've always been a bit of a saver.
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You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.
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I think, for a love story, the most important element is the music, since you don't have action sequences or item numbers. It really draws in the audience and adds to at least 70 percent of the opening of the movie.
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Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
