R. Lee Ermey quotes
- From the movie: Mississippi Burning
“- Mayor Tilman: Fact is, we got two cultures down here: a white culture, and a colored culture. Now, that's the way it always has been, and that's the way it always will be.
- Anderson: Rest of America don't see it that way, Mr. Mayor.
- Sheriff Ray Stuckey: Rest of America don't mean jack shit. You are in Mississippi now.” - From the movie: The Boys in Company C
- From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
- From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
“- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Get your fat ass up there! I'll bet if there was some pussy up there you would get up there, wouldn't you?
- Pvt. Leonard 'Gomer Pyle' Lawrence: Sir, yes sir!” - From the movie: The Siege of Firebase Gloria
“The nights are always beautiful that time of year. But you were no safer at night. And the long hours of stillness worked on your fears. Night was the time you wondered what the hell you were doing here... and whether or not you'd get your balls blown off tomorrow. You could do some pretty ugly thinking at night. For some of us, the nights were...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: The Siege of Firebase Gloria
“- Bill Hafner: How many men you got out there that ain't brain dead?
- Jones: I've got nobody willing to trip over his own guts for the Vietnamese way of life.
- Bill Hafner: I got no delusions about you or your men's democracy Jones. We are gonna refortify this shit hole and protect it like it was your daughter's cherry. I ain't gonna die here.” - From the movie: Murder in the First
- From the movie: Saving Silverman
“Remember, boys! Stay away from women! All they want from you is your man-juice! If you ever get the kind of urges that cannot be supressed by hard liquor, then use this!
[shows his right hand]” - From the movie: On Deadly Ground
“- Stone: I want you to protect this entrance like it was your sister's cherry, Tonto!
- Rook: Yes, sir.” - From the movie: The Siege of Firebase Gloria
- From the movie: The Siege of Firebase Gloria
“This rotten war was gettin' to us: we'd stayed too long, and seen too much.”
- From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be "Sir". Do you maggots understand that?
- Recruits: Sir, yes Sir. - From the movie: Saving Silverman
“- Coach: You ate her?
- Wayne: Yeah, we ate her.
- J.D.: Alive.
- Coach: My hat goes off to you. You boys are smart; that's the perfect crime.” - From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
“- Pvt. 'Snowball' Brown: Sir, Private Brown, sir!
- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Bullshit! From now on you're Private Snowball. Do you like that name?
- Pvt. 'Snowball' Brown: Sir, yes, sir!
- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Well there's one thing that you won't like, Private Snowball: they don't serve fried chicken and watermelon on a daily basis in my mess hall.” - From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
- From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
- From the movie: The Siege of Firebase Gloria
Headquarters still didn't buy my analysis of the situation. Hell, they had "experts" sitting in air-conditioned offices in Saigon who understood the war better than any one in the front line. We had asked for ammunition and reinforcements. What we got was the mail run, a few cases of beer, and a VD film... There were times when we all wondered... (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
- From the movie: Fletch Lives
- From the movie: Dead Man Walking
- From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
“- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Where the hell are you from anyway, private?
- Pvt. Cowboy: Sir, Texas, sir.
- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Holy dog shit! Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy, and you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down.” - From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
- From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
“- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: Do any of you people know where these individuals learned how to shoot? Private Joker?
- Pvt. J.T. 'Joker' Davis: Sir, in the Marines, sir!
- Gny. Sgt. Hartman: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will all be able to...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
- From the movie: The Frighteners
“I am not one of your shitty little emanations, Bannister!”
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