Bruce Dern Quotes

Track and field has always interested me.

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

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.

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.

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

I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.

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

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.

I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.

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

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

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.

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.