Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern
Bruce MacLeish Dernis an American actor, often playing supporting villainous characters of unstable nature. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, including for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Homeand Best Actor for Nebraska. He is also a three-time Golden Globe Award nominee and recipient of both the Silver Bear for Best Actor and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor...
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth4 June 1936
CityChicago, IL
artist actors way
If the film isn't in some way going to study behavior then I'm not interested, but the reason why I'm not interested in directing in film is that it would take me, to be as good an artist as I feel I am an actor, it would take me another 35 just to conquer...
sports careers relate
I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.
sports acting levels
In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.
california actors made
I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.
dog stars artist
Since I've started to star in pictures I have always managed to retain my singularity of purpose when I got into the business, which was to be an artist, as an actor, more than anything else. But to get the certain kind of role you want, you have to be in a certain position in the business and it's dog-eat-dog and it gets very hairy and you can lose your point of view sometimes.
guy mountain looks
I'm a big wilderness, mountain guy. I love to go up in the mountains and I can just sit for hours and just look at the mountains.
play wanted grim
I'm not good at living in the grim places...when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.
book reading school
I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough for me to stay interested in things long enough, I've read, probably, since college maybe 10 books, which is disgusting.
summer kids volunteer
From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.
school actors firsts
The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.
guy greek looks
Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life...
travel people lessons
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.
people bigger-than-life huge
The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
play roles
There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.