25+ Bruce Dern Quotes On Death, Being And Edge

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Top 10 Bruce Dern Quotes

  1. I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.
  2. I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.
  3. I'm not good at living in the grim places...when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.
  4. There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.
  5. Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life.
  6. The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.
  7. From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.
  8. I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.
  9. I'm a big wilderness, mountain guy. I love to go up in the mountains and I can just sit for hours and just look at the mountains.
  10. I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

Bruce Dern Short Quotes

  • The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
  • If you are willing to expose your heart...being publicly private, you just may do something.
  • Track and field has always interested me.
  • I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.

Bruce Dern Famous Quotes And Sayings

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world. — Bruce Dern

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life. — Bruce Dern

I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president. — Bruce Dern

I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough for me to stay interested in things long enough, I've read, probably, since college maybe 10 books, which is disgusting. — Bruce Dern

Since I've started to star in pictures I have always managed to retain my singularity of purpose when I got into the business, which was to be an artist, as an actor, more than anything else. But to get the certain kind of role you want, you have to be in a certain position in the business and it's dog-eat-dog and it gets very hairy and you can lose your point of view sometimes. — Bruce Dern

In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting. — Bruce Dern

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had. — Bruce Dern

I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help. — Bruce Dern

In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with. — Bruce Dern

If the film isn't in some way going to study behavior then I'm not interested, but the reason why I'm not interested in directing in film is that it would take me, to be as good an artist as I feel I am an actor, it would take me another 35 just to conquer. — Bruce Dern

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing. — Bruce Dern

Life Lessons by Bruce Dern

  1. Bruce Dern has taught us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be. He has shown us that with hard work and dedication, anything is possible.
  2. He has also shown us that it is important to stay true to ourselves and our values, no matter how much success we achieve.
  3. Finally, Bruce Dern has demonstrated that it is possible to have a long and successful career in the entertainment industry, even when faced with adversity.
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