R. Lee Ermey
R. Lee Ermey
Ronald Lee Ermey, known professionally as R. Lee Ermey, is an American actor, best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He is a retired United States Marine Corps staff sergeant and an honorary gunnery sergeant; during his tenure in the U.S. Marine Corps, he served as a drill instructor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth24 March 1944
CountryUnited States of America
R. Lee Ermey quotes about
This is for fighting, this is for fun.
Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.
It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.
I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
I play well with everybody.
I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.
I always love to come to Austin.
There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.
Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.