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
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.
Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
I spend a lot of time with my characters.
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.
What is your major malfunction?
I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.