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
sports careers relate
I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.
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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.
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I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
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When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.
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I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help
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I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.
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Track and field has always interested me.
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The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life
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The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.
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Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing