Bruce Dern Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. Track and field has always interested me.

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#3. I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.

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#4. 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.

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#5. Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. If you are willing to expose your heart ... being publicly private, you just may do something ...

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#10. 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 ...

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#11. I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

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#12. I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. 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 ...

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#18. There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

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

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#20. 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.

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#21. I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.

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#22. 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.

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#23. 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.

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#24. The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

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