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.

Bruce Dern

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I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unles... by Bruce Dern

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

curious people

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

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

roles play

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.

actors school firsts

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.

progress real country

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.

actors artist way

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

israel rivers america

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.

president dream might

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.

lessons people travel

If you are willing to expose your heart...being publicly private,... by Bruce Dern

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

willing heart may

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

bigger-than-life differences actors

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.

guy greek looks

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.

volunteer summer kids

I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough for me to stay interested in things long enough, I've read, probably, since college maybe 10 books, which is disgusting.

reading book school

I'm not good at living in the grim places...when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

grim play wanted

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.

mountain guy looks

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I n... by Bruce Dern

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

california actors made

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.

levels acting sports

I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and ever... by Bruce Dern

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

relate careers sports

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

events important sports

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956 by Bruce Dern

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956

olympics team