Recent Shows: Sin City
Biography:
Bruce Willis grew up mainly in Penns Grove, New Jersey, and graduated
from high school there before going to New York to become an actor. He
waited tables and tended bar for a living until he began to get roles
in plays. While tending bar one night he was ...(read more)
Bruce Willis grew up mainly in Penns Grove, New Jersey, and graduated
from high school there before going to New York to become an actor. He
waited tables and tended bar for a living until he began to get roles
in plays. While tending bar one night he was seen by a casting director
who liked his personality and needed a bartender for a small movie
role.
Dotti Zawadzki < zawadzki@willie.salem.cc.nj.us>
Trademarks:
* Frequently plays a man who suffered a tragedy, had lost something or had a
crisis of confidence or conscience.
* Frequently plays a man who suffered a tragedy, had lost something or had a
crisis of confidence or conscience.
Quotes:
* "I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor."
* "You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it."
* "I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a
multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am."
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* "I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor."
* "You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it."
* "I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a
multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am."
* "Mostly weight resistance training, almost an hour of cardio at least
three times a week. I have a gym in my house in Los Angeles and a gym
trailer that I can take on the road with me when I'm on location. At my
house there's a very long steep driveway. I do wind sprints that kick
my 50-year-old ass. It's part of my job. I have come to associate
working out as work. Whenever I don't have to do it for films, I kind
of slack off." - On what he does to stay in shape. (2005)
* I am a sensitive guy. People think they know the real me, but they
don't. And then they write things that make me sound like such a jerk.
* I hate working out. I work out for films solely. I associate working
out with films. As soon as they stop, I stop working out.
* Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the
years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it
is hard to stick around.
* Who I am as a father is far more important to me than the public
perception.
* "I am baffled to understand why the things that I saw happening in
Iraq, really good things happening in Iraq, are not being reported on."
* (On Hudson Hawk) "I always thought it was a little ahead of its time, a
little too hip for the room."
* "I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for
public office. My chequered past will always keep me out of politics.
If I ever did run I would run on the platform that I did all these bad
things, but I no longer do them, and during the four years of being
president or whatever office it might be, I would be good and serve my
country. I want to serve my country."
* "I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government. I want
less government intrusion. I want them to stop pissing on my money and
your money - the tax dollars that we give fifty or forty per cent of
every year, and I want them to be fiscally responsible, and I want
those goddam lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a
Republican. But other than that, I want the government to take care of
people who need help - like the kids in foster care, the half million
kids in orphanages right now ... I want them to take care of the
elderly and give them free medicine, give them whatever they need.
There's tons, billions and billions of dollars, that are just being
wasted. Okay? I hate government. I'm apolitical."
* "Look at what happened to 'James Frey' in the last two weeks. That's a great
book and so is the follow-up book. And just because his publisher chose
to say that these were memoirs, it took it out of being a great work of
fiction ... to this guy having to go be sucker punched on Oprah by one
of the most powerful women in television, just to grind her own axe
about it. Hey, Oprah. You had President ('Bill Clinton (I)' ) on your show and if
this prick didn't lie about a couple of things, I'm going to set myself
on fire right now. James Frey is a writer, OK? He can write about
whatever he wants. It's fiction. It's just shameful how he was treated
in some of these things."
* "I'm not an action hero anymore, and I think it would be inappropriate
for me to compare anything that happens in Hollywood and the
entertainment industry to the tragic loss of life on September 11th."
* "I spoke to the Colombians. It's fine. I get passionate sometimes. I
said Colombia because it was the first country to come to mind. The
drug problem has as much to do with what's going on in this country. If
there wasn't a demand, there wouldn't be a supply."
* "I think what the United States, and everyone who cares about
protecting the freedoms that the largest part of the free world now
has, should do whatever it takes to end terrorism in the world and not
just in the Middle East. I'm talking also about going to Colombia and
doing whatever it takes to end the cocaine trade. It's killing this
country. It's killing all the countries that coke goes into. I believe
that somebody's making money on it in the United States. If they
weren't making money on it, they would have stopped it. They could stop
it in one day. It's just a plant that they grow, and these guys are
growing it like it's corn or tobacco or any other thing. By the time it
gets here, it becomes a billion dollar industry. And I think that's a
form of terrorism as well."
* "The Iraqi people want to live in a world where they can move from
their homes to the market and not have to fear being killed. I mean,
doesn't everybody want that?"
* "I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind
of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different
point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the
States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached
to."
* "The movie is about these guys who do what they are asked for very
little money to defend and fight for what they consider to be freedom."
- On his planned film about the Iraq war
* "I thought about signing up but my friends told me I was too old. I
called the White House, called President Bush and asked what I could
do. So I got involved with the national foster care programme."
* "If you take guns away from legal gun owners then the only people who
would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get
violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for
your life, whatever your beliefs. You'd use a rock or tear one of these
chairs out of the floor. Hey, maybe I've been watching too many Bruce
Willis movies!"
* "I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not!
I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could
build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care,
that would be great."
* "The idea of serving my country remained in my mind. Over the past few
years from varying sources - Time Magazine, books, and television -
information began coming to my attention on Foster Care; its history
and the current crisis of an antiquated system overburdened with
580,000 children who have no voice. Children need to be protected by
interstate technology systems that can track placements, education,
medical records and protect these children from predators traveling
from state to state. I saw Foster Care as a way for me to serve my
country in a system by which shining a little bit of light could
benefit a great deal by helping kids who were literally wards of the
government."
* "Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human."
* "Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They
were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why
weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened. Modern
religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who
interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe
that's the way. And that's what makes America cool, you know?"
(1998)
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Posted on 02/09/08 01:21 PM.
When i grow up,i wanna b like Bruce.Lol
Posted on 01/07/08 08:36 AM.
die hards collection is the best gets better every one he makes
Posted on 01/06/08 01:05 PM.
THIS MAN IS AN EXERLENT ACTOR LOVE HIM...
Posted on 11/30/07 03:10 AM.
hi man how r u you are very nice i love u che_ammar@hotmail.com
Posted on 10/19/07 04:42 AM.
i love this man as well as his movies.his movies are just great.