Quotes by Bruce Dern

About Bruce Dern:

Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor. He frequently takes roles as a supporting character actor, often playing villains of unstable nature. He has appeared in more than 80 feature films, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1978 film Coming Home and Best Actor for the 2013 film Nebraska. He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1982 Berlin Film Festival for That Championship Season and Best Actor at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for Nebraska. His other film roles include They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), The Cowboys (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974), Family Plot (1975), Black Sunday (1977), and Django Unchained (2012).
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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

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

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameBruce Dern
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornJune 4, 1936
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor