Bruce Campbell Quotes & Sayings

You'll lose about two million brain cells every minute that goes by. — Bruce Campbell

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

If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting and dip that in a bucket of blood, and then just flick your wrist. You'll get this great speckled splash of blood, and it will cost you nothing. — Bruce Campbell

I see parody as another form of comedy. — Bruce Campbell

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

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera. — Bruce Campbell

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. — Bruce Campbell

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

I'm sick of over-trained heroes. I'm really bored with that. Guys that are just ripped to shreds and full of skills. That's boring me. Give me the mechanic that picks up a weapon. Now I'm interested. That's my hero. — Bruce Campbell

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. — Bruce Campbell

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building. — Bruce Campbell

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

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

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel. — Bruce Campbell

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors. — Bruce Campbell

I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all. — Bruce Campbell

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

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

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

You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim. — Bruce Campbell

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

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun — Bruce Campbell

I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too. — Bruce Campbell

You have to be careful with fans, they'll turn on you. They turn quick. Twitter can go dark fast. If you talk about something serious on Twitter, you better be ready. If you try to pull out real facts or talk about political opinions or something religious, forget it. Like if people asked me who I was voting for, you couldn't touch that one. — Bruce Campbell

If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall. — Bruce Campbell

There is a large element of me in every role I do. — Bruce Campbell

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

Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative. — Bruce Campbell

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. — Bruce Campbell

I'm wearing three hats; I'm acting, producing, and directing. I was very involved in developing the script, too. But to me, that is very liberating. To me, the lower the budget, the more I want to be involved. I want to be more in control of my own destiny when there isn't much money involved, because you don't have the experts who can control your destiny. — Bruce Campbell

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

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. — Bruce Campbell

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

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do. — Bruce Campbell

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

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. — Bruce Campbell

It's very gratifying that someone likes what you're selling. — Bruce Campbell

Digital blood is not effective. — Bruce Campbell

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer. — Bruce Campbell

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out. — Bruce Campbell

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. — Bruce Campbell

I'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist. — Bruce Campbell

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. — Bruce Campbell

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much. — Bruce Campbell

The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice. If people don't show that weekend, you're doomed. TV allows you to percolate a little bit, and it gives you a chance for people to find it. — Bruce Campbell

The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage, mayhem, whatever you're looking for. "The Evil Dead" movies, in my opinion, function better in an unrestricted world. — Bruce Campbell

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. — Bruce Campbell