R. Lee Ermey Quotes

An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.

I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

The truth is, working on single camera, show or film, you have no life. You work 60-80 hours a week. You're up before your kid gets up, and you're home when they go to sleep.

Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.

When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.

'Battlestar' was 22 episodes - 9 to 10 months a year - and we were exhausted. You finish shooting, and the last thing you want to do is go back to work. You want those 3 months off because you're tired - it's a grueling shooting schedule.

It's an interesting thing to come to New York and do a television show. You're doing 10 hours of content in four and a half months. Eighty-hour weeks are par for the course.

It's a lot of a workload doing an hour dramatic show. It's just incredible what little time off you get.

I don't enjoy the road life or WWE's really hectic schedule.

The show girls do, like, 12 shows a day. I only did one or two shows a day, and I was like, 'I need to go to sleep.'

Once you're drafted there is no time to relax.

When you're in the military, you get accustomed to sleep deprivation.

I work 110-hour weeks.

I'm pretty much working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

I really have to pace myself. I work about 75 hours a week.

'Law & Order' is a six-month shoot. Everything has to be crammed in. I had so much fun, but it wasn't a holiday. We had seriously long days, and we'd finish at 8 P.M. and start again at 7 A.M. We were doing six-day weeks, which sometimes tripped onto the seventh. But I loved it all.

It's pretty much impossible to do anything when you're in WWE because you're so busy constantly.

I have a crazy work schedule.

There are days where I'm at the facility almost all day long. It's definitely demanding mentally and physically.

That's the magic of filmmaking. When you are on sets 18-20 hours of the day for two-three months at a stretch, the unit becomes like family.