Bruce Willis Quotations

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it's someone you already know. You think it's someone you're yet to meet.

I'm really just a regular guy who has had an incredibly blessed life.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

There was a lot of dancing in '76, '78, in the '80s. A lot of dancing. The burn years. A lot of dancing. And for a while, working fit in with all that. 'Moonlighting' - that wasn't acting. It was people telling me 'Let's create a character who is you, so you can play him the way you are. The guy you are at night.' It was fun.

I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

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.

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

Who I am as a father is far more important to me than the public perception.

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.

I like having the dough to come and go as I please.

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.

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.

I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

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.

I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.

I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job.

I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.

I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

I've done films where you have to get in shape for purely vanity reasons, when you read a script, turn to page 87 and it says: "Rips his shirt off and casually throws it onto chair" - and you're going to go to the gym the next day because nobody wants to see your big fat arse out there taking your shirt off!

There are lots of different parts of movie-making that I participate in, but my favorite part is the making of it. I'm scared, every day. I keep thinking someone's going to throw me the ball and I'm going to go, "Oh, wow. Oh, god. I just messed that up."

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

You can kind of judge how old a film is by the size of the cell phones.

My friends are always honest with me about films. But I really wanted to talk to regular people and kind of have a forum to interact with them; not just about films, but about everything.

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.

I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics.

I think that the "what if" game is what you guys get to do. I don't have to do that. I hate the "what if" game. I'm such a believer in everything happening the way it's supposed to happen.

If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

I know how to turn it on [computer]. I know where the disc goes: in that little slot but I can't always get it out. And I have three genius-level computer savvy kids who save my ass all the time. I'll tell you what I don't do. I don't watch the news on TV anymore. I get my news online. And like all of you, I Google whoever I want.

What I say is what I say, I don't always say the right thing, I don't always say the politically correct thing. I don't have any regrets about that.

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

You wouldn't want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You'd get bummed out, and you'd just stay at home and watch the news.

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

Everybody understands that acting is a really difficult job. It's hard work. You've got to get dressed up, you've got to hang around with beautiful women. It's difficult. It's a problem.

The difference between trying to be fit and not being fit really means the difference between life and death.

Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder?

They hear you own up, and they learn to own up.

Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?

Instead of waiting until crisis problems develop which result in panic praying for others, we need to trust God to protect them as we pray Spirit-led, thoughtful, caring prayers before the problems overwhelm them, and they are unable to cope. We need to engage in major battles, not just minor skirmishes, moving from surface praying to in-depth praying. We need to pray both defensively and offensively.

Whether you're a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head.

At 25, you've got millions of brain cells to kill.

There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a pretty big star, folks - I don't have to tell you. Superstar, I guess you could say.

Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.

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!

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms,

All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.

Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful.

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

You can not bring back the past. But you certainly can not repeat it. Life is short, even if live to ninety. Live to the fullest - that's how I feel. Appreciate every moment, every hour, every day, because they do not blink of an eye, all over. I am absolutely sure that for most people their death comes as a surprise.

We were lucky to get Sam Jackson and Jeremy Irons and John McTiernan back. Long movie and hard movie to make and difficult for me because instead of working, my biggest concern was not repeating things I had done it in the previous films. And it rang notes in my head of episodic TV. A sequel is not a new movie; it's a chapter in a movie that you have already seen. Thank god Sam was there and thank god Jeremy was there. Again, it went outside the template of that series of films but it did well and made a ton of dough and the third chapter of a lot of sequels is always the one that falls down.

I had no idea Canada could be so much fun.

There is nothing better than strolling down the beach the way God made you.

Look, lady I only speak two languages: English and Bad English!

Balding if God's way of showing you are only human... He takes the hair off your head and puts it in your ears.

Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.

I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it's on. I made the kids watch it every time, too and now they just love watching it. Stanley Kubrick's great. And Blade Runner is one of my top three science fiction films. A lot of it has come true.

Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.

I haven't seen this many men dressed in women's clothing since my bachelor party

Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting

All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation.

It's an eclectic film and I think we served the novel really well. And we had a great cast who worked for free. Everyone read it and said, I'm in, from Nick [Nolte] to Albert [Finney] to Omar [Epps] to Barbara [Hershey]. We really had fun and shot it in a very short time. I think the subject matter is more topical today, more to the point, than it was 30 years ago, when it concerned the Vietnam War.

Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.

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?

They look right. And you move left.

I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.

Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.

I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.

To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually saying we can get along without His help while the evidence is very clear on every hand that we cannot. Could it be that the sin of prayerlessness steams from our unbelief that he is a living God who exercises direct influence on the affairs of men?

It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.

Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

I'm always excited to be around other actors. I sometimes only get to work with myself, and it's so tedious. I was so excited to go to work every day, and we ran into work every day.

I found that a lot of David Addison bled into the character. Wily and intrepid and a loner and gets a pretty big kick out of life. It's only when in this particular film that he is confronted with a family situation that he starts to find himself on shaky ground.

Just Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimillionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.

When the world says 'please let us help,' extraordinary things begin to happen.

You have to audition for that movie as soon as we're done with this film.