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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
R. Lee Ermey
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R. Lee Ermey
Age: 74 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 24
Died: 2018
Died: April 15
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There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.
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You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.
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I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
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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.
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I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
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I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.
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