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

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people..

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

Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair..

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 respectabl….

The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more..

I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character..

Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy..

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

I always love to come to Austin..

I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can..

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd..

I spend a lot of time with my characters..

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….

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America..

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 e….

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 Vietn….

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me..

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control..

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days..

America's trying to do the best for its veterans..