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Bruce Dern Biography

Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an American actor, often playing supporting villainous characters of unstable nature. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978) and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013). His other film appearances include the Roger Corman films The Wild Angels (1966), The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), and The Trip (1967), as well as The Cowboys (1972), Silent Running (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974), Black Sunday (1977), The Driver (1978), The 'Burbs (1989), Monster (2003), and The Hateful Eight (2015).

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The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

Bigger, Bigger Than Life, Huge, People, Screen, Worked

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.

Greek, Guy, Looks, Pop, Redford

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

America, Israel, Right, Rivers, Solve, Tomorrow

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.

Artist, Business, Dog, Purpose, Singularity, Stars

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.

Forced, Kids, Played, Summer, Volunteer

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

Actor, Actors, California, Came, Made

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956

1956, Make, Olympics, Team

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.

1967, Back, Country, Palestinians, Progress, Real

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.

1970S, Cowboy, Dying, Noticed, Stars, World

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.

Acted, Actors, Firsts, Reason, School

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.

Lesson, Lessons, People, Trail, Travel, Trip

There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

Life, Like, Play, Roles, Time

I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.

Dream, Might, Obama, President, Pull, Voted

If you are willing to expose your heart. . . being publicly private, you just may do something.

Expose, Heart, May, Publicly, Willing

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.

Actor, Actors, Artist, Interested, Study, Way

Track and field has always interested me.

Field, Fields, Interested, Track, Track And Field

In Hitchcocks eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.

Acting, Audience, Camera, Cameras, Eye, Human