R. Lee Ermey

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

I always love to come to Austin.

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.

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

I play well with everybody.

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 my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

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.

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.

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.