Dern Quotes

#1. It's his dern laziness," Call said. "Jake just kind of drifts. Any wind can blow him.

Larry McMurtry

#2. Jake, you're a dern grasshopper," Augustus said. "You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you're talking California.

Larry McMurtry

#3. Jim said he believed it was spirits, but I says: no, spirits wouldn't say "dern the dern fog".

Mark Twain

#4. I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.

Jonathan Levine

#5. Dern, I hate cooking with shit.
Augustus McCrae to Lorena Wood

Larry McMurtry

#6. Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.

Will Forte

#7. The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

Garret Dillahunt

#8. Who asked them dern pigs?" he said. "I guess they tracked us," Augustus said. "They're enterprising pigs.

Larry McMurtry

#9. I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.

Larry McMurtry

#10. If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

Laura Dern

#11. 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

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

Bruce Dern

#13. 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.

Laura Dern

#14. That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.

Laura Dern

#15. I just love, I love, I love movies.

Laura Dern

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. I love to rescue animals ... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

Laura Dern

#19. We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

Laura Dern

#20. 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

#21. I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

Laura Dern

#22. 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.

Bruce Dern

#23. It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.

Laura Dern

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

Bruce Dern

#25. I've always loved film more than theater.

Laura Dern

#26. There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.

Laura Dern

#27. I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.

Laura Dern

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. There is so much in the world to care about.

Laura Dern

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

Bruce Dern

#32. You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

Laura Dern

#33. 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

#34. You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

Laura Dern

#35. 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

#36. I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

Laura Dern

#37. Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

Laura Dern

#38. I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.

Laura Dern

#39. My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

Laura Dern

#40. 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.

Bruce Dern

#41. Track and field has always interested me.

Bruce Dern

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

Bruce Dern

#43. 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.

Bruce Dern

#44. It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

Laura Dern

#45. Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

Laura Dern

#46. There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

Laura Dern

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

Bruce Dern

#48. What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

Laura Dern

#49. 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

#50. 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.

Bruce Dern

#51. I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

Laura Dern

#52. When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

Laura Dern

#53. The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

Laura Dern

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

Bruce Dern

#55. I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

Laura Dern

#56. It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

Laura Dern

#57. 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.

Bruce Dern

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

Bruce Dern

#59. I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

Laura Dern

#60. It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

Laura Dern

#61. I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

Laura Dern

#62. 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 ...

Bruce Dern

#63. Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

Laura Dern

#64. I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

Laura Dern

#65. I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

Laura Dern

#66. I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

Laura Dern

#67. Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

Laura Dern

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

Bruce Dern