Bruce Dern Quotes

United States, Actor
June 4, 1936

Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor, often playing supporting villainous characters of unstable nature. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978) and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013).[1] His other film appearances include The Cowboys (1972), Black Sunday (1977), Monster (2003), and The Hateful Eight (2015).

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

Bruce Dern
- People
- Life

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
- Up
- World
- Movie
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
- America
- Help
- River
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
- Eyes
Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

Bruce Dern
- Important
- Money
- Sports
I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

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- Team
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
- World
- Real
- Help

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
- Life