Unlike most actors, I did not have a horrible childhood. Most actors have had miserable childhoods and they go into acting to hide from their real life. I had no problem playing in the woods all day. People just sort of left me alone. I think I'm gonna go back to those woods.

Bruce Campbell

When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies.

Bruce Campbell

if-life-gives-you-lemons zombie giving

All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.

Bruce Campbell

justified men thinking

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

Bruce Campbell

roles sleep people

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.'

Bruce Campbell

hollywood long mean

If you have it you don't need it. If you need it, you don't have it. If you have it, you need more of it. If you have more of it, you don't need less of it. You need it to get it. And you certainly need it to get more of it. But if you don't already have any of it to begin with, you can't get any of it to get started, which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place, do you? You can share it, sure. You can even stockpile it if you like. But you can't fake it. Wanting it. Needing it. Wishing for it. The point is if you've never had any of it ever people just seem to know.

Bruce Campbell

mean people ideas

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.

Bruce Campbell

sock

We make our own problems every time. Everything that we complain about is something we can solve.

Bruce Campbell

solve problem complaining

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

Bruce Campbell

approved mouths

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun

Bruce Campbell

army guy gun

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.

Bruce Campbell

sick evil forever

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

Bruce Campbell

chemistry tests sometimes

If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.

Bruce Campbell

want pay world

The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

Bruce Campbell

hard-work opportunity jobs

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.

Bruce Campbell

children reality past

Only comedies can get you that engaged in a movie, dramas people just sort of sit there and eat their popcorn and nothing really happens, they might cry a little bit, but that's it. Horror movies are talking at the screen, guys are elbowing each other, laughing at each other because they got scared. That's the beauty of a horror movie.

Bruce Campbell

talking drama people

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

Bruce Campbell

cult classic alternatives

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

Bruce Campbell

actors character lying

Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.

Bruce Campbell

genre pops hot

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.

Bruce Campbell

hollywood years ideas

Actors are always going to have a little bit of themselves in everything.

Bruce Campbell