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.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• 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.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • World
  • Happy
  • Man

• The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Know
  • Never
  • Rules

• 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.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Experience
  • Same
  • Mystery

• Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Live
  • Why

• True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Character
  • True
  • Religion

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Adversity
  • Himself

• I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Bond

• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Success
  • Start
  • Scared

• 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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Experience
  • City
  • New

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• My plea to the Body of Christ is while we must do all we can to meet the needs of the suffering and dying millions, we must not see these activities as a substitute for evangelism and establishing churches among the unreached.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Church
  • Suffering
  • Dying

• If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Pilot

• Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Power
  • Political
  • Religious

• The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • May
  • Business

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

  

  Bruce Dern
  • People
  • Life