Bruce Willis Quotes

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

Bruce Willis

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• It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • People
  • Think
  • Famous

• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Famous

• But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Yourself

• If you're famous, you're not free.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Free
  • You
  • Famous

• I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Brother
  • Famous
  • Big Brother

• I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • People
  • Sports
  • Confidence

• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Children
  • Money
  • Struggle

• I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Man
  • Woman

• I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Animal
  • Famous
  • Train

• I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Wish

• Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Famous
  • More
  • Fame

• The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • House
  • Myself

• I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Writer

• I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Work
  • Confidence
  • Basketball

• I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Famous

• The key thing is confidence, and you get that from the actions that you take. It can be anything from getting chicks, being in a fight, having success at work, having a good family. A lot of that stuff comes from having confidence, so that's one of the biggest things.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Good
  • Work
  • Family

• I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Good
  • Work
  • Comedy

• There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors.

  

  Dannel Malloy
  • May
  • Culture
  • Education

• Faith is an active creative force.

  

  J. H. Oldham
  • Faith
  • Creative
  • Force

• To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Art
  • Imagination
  • Difficult

• I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Confidence
  • Famous