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

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

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.

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

The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.