R. Lee Ermey Quotes

I've reached a point in England where you can't go much further; I would love to come to America and work with some of the interesting directors here.

I honestly always thought my Master's in Fine Arts would get me further in the acting world than knowing how to work an espresso machine!

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

'One Tree Hill' was a great learning opportunity for me, and I'm excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

Coming to Pakistan has been unbelievable. It is the best thing of my career.

My travels around the country have led me to believe that many communities want this diversity of opportunity. They're proud of the traditional industries, whether it's coal or steel, or of course doing military service, but they want their kids to have opportunities beyond that.

I play the role of my career in 'Dhanam.'

I have an inspired career other than just singing.

Everyone keeps telling me how young I am, but if the right opportunity comes up, I'm ready to manage.

Take any job in a growing, exciting company. You'll learn so much.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

I did everything, I thought I was going to be in marketing, then I thought advertising then I thought I was going to be an architect and then I was like 'you know what, let me just be a soap star!'

The 18 years on TNT has prepared me for a lot of opportunities, and coaching is one of them.

My career needs to progress. Time's ticking.

After my debut film, I was doing reality shows and hosting so it was not that I had nothing else to do.

I wanted a challenge, wanted to be self-sufficient, so I thought, 'Go and join the army,' at a young age, and I just happened to be good at what I done and went up the ladder and went up to the top.

I did not set up Born Free because I wanted to see myself in films... I want to take my aspirations to another level.

The biggest thing I learned at Wisconsin was, it's all who you work for, not where you work or what level.

It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.

The knowledge you have through so much shooting, so much work you do, you develop yourself very fast. And because of the success of 'Killing Eve', it moves on to another level and the possibility to get more jobs.

When the acting all dries up, I won't be going there - either to the police force or to the church. I'll have to think of something else!