Bruce Willis Quotes & Sayings

I know how to turn it on [computer]. I know where the disc goes: in that little slot but I can't always get it out. And I have three genius-level computer savvy kids who save my ass all the time. I'll tell you what I don't do. I don't watch the news on TV anymore. I get my news online. And like all of you, I Google whoever I want. — Bruce Willis

Instead of waiting until crisis problems develop which result in panic praying for others, we need to trust God to protect them as we pray Spirit-led, thoughtful, caring prayers before the problems overwhelm them, and they are unable to cope. We need to engage in major battles, not just minor skirmishes, moving from surface praying to in-depth praying. We need to pray both defensively and offensively. — Bruce Willis

I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls. — Bruce Willis

My friends are always honest with me about films. But I really wanted to talk to regular people and kind of have a forum to interact with them; not just about films, but about everything. — Bruce Willis

I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids. — Bruce Willis

Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder? — Bruce Willis

I've done films where you have to get in shape for purely vanity reasons, when you read a script, turn to page 87 and it says: "Rips his shirt off and casually throws it onto chair" - and you're going to go to the gym the next day because nobody wants to see your big fat arse out there taking your shirt off! — Bruce Willis

I wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life. — Bruce Willis

Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting — Bruce Willis

I'm happy every day. — Bruce Willis

I haven't seen this many men dressed in women's clothing since my bachelor party — Bruce Willis

It's an eclectic film and I think we served the novel really well. And we had a great cast who worked for free. Everyone read it and said, I'm in, from Nick [Nolte] to Albert [Finney] to Omar [Epps] to Barbara [Hershey]. We really had fun and shot it in a very short time. I think the subject matter is more topical today, more to the point, than it was 30 years ago, when it concerned the Vietnam War. — Bruce Willis

If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment. — Bruce Willis

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry. — Bruce Willis

It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive. — Bruce Willis

Who I am as a father is far more important to me than the public perception. — Bruce Willis

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do. — Bruce Willis

To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually saying we can get along without His help while the evidence is very clear on every hand that we cannot. Could it be that the sin of prayerlessness steams from our unbelief that he is a living God who exercises direct influence on the affairs of men? — Bruce Willis

I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am. — Bruce Willis

You can not bring back the past. But you certainly can not repeat it. Life is short, even if live to ninety. Live to the fullest - that's how I feel. Appreciate every moment, every hour, every day, because they do not blink of an eye, all over. I am absolutely sure that for most people their death comes as a surprise. — Bruce Willis

Whether you're a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head. — Bruce Willis

There was a lot of dancing in '76, '78, in the '80s. A lot of dancing. The burn years. A lot of dancing. And for a while, working fit in with all that. 'Moonlighting' - that wasn't acting. It was people telling me 'Let's create a character who is you, so you can play him the way you are. The guy you are at night.' It was fun. — Bruce Willis

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions. — Bruce Willis

Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately? — Bruce Willis

When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it's someone you already know. You think it's someone you're yet to meet. — Bruce Willis

All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it. — Bruce Willis

At 25, you've got millions of brain cells to kill. — Bruce Willis

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened. Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that's the way. And that's what makes America cool, you know? — Bruce Willis

Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister. — Bruce Willis

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. — Bruce Willis

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt. — Bruce Willis

I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with. — Bruce Willis

I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain. — Bruce Willis

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood. — Bruce Willis

Look, lady I only speak two languages: English and Bad English! — Bruce Willis

I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person. — Bruce Willis

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films ... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys. — Bruce Willis

Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys. — Bruce Willis

I think that the "what if" game is what you guys get to do. I don't have to do that. I hate the "what if" game. I'm such a believer in everything happening the way it's supposed to happen. — Bruce Willis

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes. — Bruce Willis

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human. — Bruce Willis

I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all. — Bruce Willis

What I say is what I say, I don't always say the right thing, I don't always say the politically correct thing. I don't have any regrets about that. — Bruce Willis

You can kind of judge how old a film is by the size of the cell phones. — Bruce Willis

I like having the dough to come and go as I please. — Bruce Willis

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements. — Bruce Willis

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today. — Bruce Willis

Now I know what a TV dinner feels like. — Bruce Willis

There is nothing better than strolling down the beach the way God made you. — Bruce Willis

They look right. And you move left. — Bruce Willis

I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great. — Bruce Willis

I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it's on. I made the kids watch it every time, too and now they just love watching it. Stanley Kubrick's great. And Blade Runner is one of my top three science fiction films. A lot of it has come true. — Bruce Willis

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself. — Bruce Willis

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics. — Bruce Willis

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience. — Bruce Willis

I had no idea Canada could be so much fun. — Bruce Willis

You can't undo the past ... but you can certainly not repeat it. — Bruce Willis

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off. — Bruce Willis

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing. — Bruce Willis

If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs. — Bruce Willis

I'm really just a regular guy who has had an incredibly blessed life. — Bruce Willis

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart. — Bruce Willis

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo. — Bruce Willis

Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who? — Bruce Willis

I think that you can't start to pick apart anything out of the Bill of Rights without thinking that it's all going to become undone, if you take one out or change one law, then why wouldn't they take all your rights away from you? — Bruce Willis

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this. — Bruce Willis

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor. — Bruce Willis

There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a pretty big star, folks - I don't have to tell you. Superstar, I guess you could say. — Bruce Willis

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble. — Bruce Willis

I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work. — Bruce Willis

Everybody understands that acting is a really difficult job. It's hard work. You've got to get dressed up, you've got to hang around with beautiful women. It's difficult. It's a problem. — Bruce Willis

You wouldn't want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You'd get bummed out, and you'd just stay at home and watch the news. — Bruce Willis

Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur. — Bruce Willis

I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it. — Bruce Willis

I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job. — Bruce Willis

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican. — Bruce Willis

I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to. — Bruce Willis

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys. — Bruce Willis

They hear you own up, and they learn to own up. — Bruce Willis

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground. — Bruce Willis

Cinema has no boundaries ... we all belong to the same artistic community. — Bruce Willis

We were lucky to get Sam Jackson and Jeremy Irons and John McTiernan back. Long movie and hard movie to make and difficult for me because instead of working, my biggest concern was not repeating things I had done it in the previous films. And it rang notes in my head of episodic TV. A sequel is not a new movie; it's a chapter in a movie that you have already seen. Thank god Sam was there and thank god Jeremy was there. Again, it went outside the template of that series of films but it did well and made a ton of dough and the third chapter of a lot of sequels is always the one that falls down. — Bruce Willis

Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside. — Bruce Willis

Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around. — Bruce Willis

If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein. — Bruce Willis

All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation. — Bruce Willis

I'm always excited to be around other actors. I sometimes only get to work with myself, and it's so tedious. I was so excited to go to work every day, and we ran into work every day. — Bruce Willis

I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics. — Bruce Willis

Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful. — Bruce Willis

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys. — Bruce Willis

There are lots of different parts of movie-making that I participate in, but my favorite part is the making of it. I'm scared, every day. I keep thinking someone's going to throw me the ball and I'm going to go, "Oh, wow. Oh, god. I just messed that up." — Bruce Willis