Quotes by Bruce Dern - Page 1

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956
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Olympics
Team
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Track and field has always interested me.
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Fields
Track
Track And Field
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I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.
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Olympics
Team
Tried
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There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.
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Play
Roles
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I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.
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Sports
Careers
Relate
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If you are willing to expose your heart...being publicly private, you just may do something.
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Heart
May
Willing
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I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.
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Actors
California
Made
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The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
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Bigger
Bigger Than Life
Huge
People
Screen
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I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.
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Curious
People
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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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Sports
Events
Important
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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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Betting
Management
Won
Event
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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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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Guy
Looks
Mountain
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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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Actors
Bigger Than Life
Differences
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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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Bigger
My Generation
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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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Actors
Firsts
School
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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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Dream
Might
President
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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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Kids
Summer
Volunteer
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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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Sports
Acting
Levels
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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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Travel
Laura
Lessons
Miles
People
Followed
Immigrant
Lesson
Trail
Trip
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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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Grim
Play
Wanted
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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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Greek
Guy
Looks
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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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Country
Palestine
Progress
Real
Arab
Arab Countries
Be Real
Countries
Palestinians
Region
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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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Cowboy
Dying
Stars
Star
Ended
Episode
Noticed
Third
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In Hitchcocks 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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Acting
Cameras
Eye
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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.
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Acting
Audience
Dramatic
Hitchcock
Moved
Subtle
Director
Camera
Eyes
Human Being
Worked
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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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America
Israel
Rivers
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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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Israel
Jordan
Solve
Tomorrow
Push
River
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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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Book
Reading
School
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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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Actors
Artist
Way
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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.
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Artist
Dog
Stars
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