Bruce Dern Quotes
The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
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With any character I do, I do my due diligence with research.
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I used to try and do backflips a lot, but I used to bang my head more often than not, so I gave it up.
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Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'
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I most certainly am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community. I don't have an opinion on people with different religious, sexual or political preferences. I'm one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that.
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Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.
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The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
