Top 41 Bruce Campbell Quotes
#1. The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.
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#2. I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.
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#3. All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.
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#4. It's very gratifying that someone likes what you're selling.
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#5. You have to have horror that is entertaining, where you can laugh. Most people don't want you to laugh at horror. They just want you to just be disgusted and terrified.
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#6. I'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist.
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#7. I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too.
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#8. You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.
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#9. I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.
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#10. If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting and dip that in a bucket of blood, and then just flick your wrist. You'll get this great speckled splash of blood, and it will cost you nothing.
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#11. Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.
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#12. As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.
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#13. I'm sick of over-trained heroes. I'm really bored with that. Guys that are just ripped to shreds and full of skills. That's boring me. Give me the mechanic that picks up a weapon. Now I'm interested. That's my hero.
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#14. People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.
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#15. You're not looking for the Rolls Royce and the big fancy trailer. Those are supposed to be the byproducts of having fun and then getting good at what you do.
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#17. We make our own problems every time. Everything that we complain about is something we can solve.
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#18. For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'
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#19. You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.
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#20. If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.
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#21. Evil Dead needs a very specific home. Movies are mostly unrated, but on television who the heck was doing that stuff? And now the doors opened a little bit with companies like Starz. They were the only suitor that was going to let us have content that was unrestricted.
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#22. There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there ... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years ... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
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#24. It's smart to have a set of younger actors. People don't always want to look at me. They want to look at other people.
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#25. If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.
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#26. 'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.
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#27. My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.
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#28. Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.
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#29. You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim.
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#31. I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.
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#32. Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.
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#33. Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.
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#34. A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
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#35. You'll lose about two million brain cells every minute that goes by.
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#37. There is a large element of me in every role I do.
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#38. The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice. If people don't show that weekend, you're doomed. TV allows you to percolate a little bit, and it gives you a chance for people to find it.
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#39. Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.
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#40. Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults - wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.
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#41. The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage, mayhem, whatever you're looking for. "The Evil Dead" movies, in my opinion, function better in an unrestricted world.
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