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Bruce Campbell Biography

Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22, 1958) is an American actor, producer, writer, comedian and director. One of his best-known roles is portraying Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead franchise, beginning with the 1978 short film Within the Woods. He has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave (1985), Maniac Cop (1988), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002).

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A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

Alternatives, Classic, Cult, Fully

I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.

Long, People, Thinking, Time

It's smart to have a set of younger actors. People don't always want to look at me. They want to look at other people.

Look, Looks, People, Set, Smart

Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.

Chemistry, Fail, Sometimes, Test, Tests

If you ain't got socks, you ain't got much. But if you got 'em, you might as well pull 'em up. It's a statement of self-sufficiency. We should all be more self-governed.

Pull, Sock, Socks, Statement

I don't say any word that I don't approve.

Approve, Say, Word

Funny stories on set - there are thousands of them, but they are only funny to the people who were on the movies. You start to have inside jokes and gallows humor. You have all kinds of things you laugh at, but as soon as you tell somebody, the joke falls flat because they don't know the context of it.

Fall, Gallows, Jokes, Know, Laughing, People

You have to have horror that is entertaining, where you can laugh. Most people don't want you to laugh at horror. They just want you to just be disgusted and terrified.

Horror, Laugh, Laughing, People, Want

You're not looking for the Rolls Royce and the big fancy trailer. Those are supposed to be the byproducts of having fun and then getting good at what you do.

Fancy, Fun, Looking, Rolls, Rolls Royce

Every single bit of entertainment is escapism. It's because you are saying, "Let's see what this other person's life is like. " And also it's beyond escapism, its entertainment and art as such can elevate the species. The entertainer supposedly is the muse. They're the ones who tell you what is wrong with society in a humorous way. They're the ones who do an expose about this or a documentary about that about the injustice of this. So it can be a very powerful medium.

Art, Escapism, Humorous, Ones, Powerful, Saying

Every word out of my mouth is a word that I've approved.

Approved, Mouth, Mouths, Word

I see parody as another form of comedy.

Comedy, Form, Parody, See

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there. . . watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years. . . Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

Become, Hollywood, Hopelessly, Ideas, Version, Years

Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

Children, Fugitives, Past, Pupils, Reality

For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor,. . . But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better. '

Hollywood, Long, Mean, Movie, Putting, See

Evil Dead" needs a very specific home. Movies are mostly unrated, but on television who the heck was doing that stuff? And now the doors opened a little bit with companies like Starz. They were the only suitor that was going to let us have content that was unrestricted.

Doors, Evil, Home, Needs, Specific, Television

Digital blood is not effective.

Blood, Digital, Effective

I'm not really that sick of Evil Dead. I can trace all roots back to The Evil Dead movies, so I have nothing against them. It's just that I've done more non-Evil Dead stuff; it's not the only thing I've done. There are some actors who have done a cult movie and they are forever going to be the Policeman #2 in Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Cult, Evil, Forever, Movie, Sick

Studios might cast an actor because he is too tall next to the leading lady, who is too short, or they might not cast your guy because he's blond, and they wanted a brunette. There's all kinds of reasons why they want one person over another. I don't worry about it, but it can hurt sometimes if you really wanted something, if you really went after something.

Guy, Hurt, Short, Studios, Tall, Worry

There shouldn't be any censorship. This is America. There shouldn't be any of this freedom of the press, freedom of expression, but having said that, I think what's important is that people who make movies don't try to falsely lure people in to see the movie that don't want to be there. A kid should not see Evil Dead and we knew that.

Kid, Kids, Movies, People, See, Thinking

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