R. Lee Ermey Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
-
I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
-
For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
-
There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
-
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
-
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
-
I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
-
Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
-
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
-
The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
-
Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
-
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
-
To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
-
We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
-
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
-
In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
-
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
-
Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
-
I really try to get eight hours of sleep, and I really try not to go out after a Tuesday or Friday night show because I know I have a two-show day the following day.
-
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
-
I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.
-
The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
-
We play hard, we take the ball away and the No. 1 thing is we get to the quarterback and we get to the ball. When the ball is on the ground, we usually have a lot of guys around it.
-
I play well with everybody.
