Bruce Dern - biography

“Because I’m the only actor who ever killed John Wayne in a picture, producers have pegged me as a villain.”

“Forget the ego, you’ll get there.  Be real or get out.”

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

“When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.”

“[James] Dean was so real.  I believed he was a real person - that he wasn’t acting.”

“In Hitchcock’s eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting.  When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera.  He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.”

“Steven Spielberg doesn’t know anything about actors, that’s obvious.”

“The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant?  I ate a baby in that movie.  Ate a baby!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Bruce Dern has appeared in the following films:
Wild River (1960)
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Marnie (1964)
The Wild Angels (1966)
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967)
The Trip (1967)
The War Wagon (1967)
Waterhole Three (1967)
Hang ’Em High (1968)
Psych-Out (1968)
Will Penny (1968)
Castle Keep (1969)
Number One (1969)
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
Bloody Mama (1970)
The Rebel Rousers (1970)
Drive, He Said (1971)
Silent Running (1972)
The Cowboys (1972)
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
The Great Gatsby (1974)
Posse (1975)
Smile (1975)
Family Plot (1976)
Folies bourgeoises (1976)
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
Black Sunday (1977)
Coming Home (1978)
The Driver (1978)
That Championship Season (1982)
The Big Town (1987)
1969 (1988)
The ’burbs (1989)
After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
Diggstown (1992)
Wild Bill (1995)
Last Man Standing (1996)
Mulholland Falls (1996)
Small Soldiers (1998)
If... Dog... Rabbit... (1999)
The Haunting (1999)
All the Pretty Horses (2000)
The Glass House (2001)
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
Monster (2003)
Down in the Valley (2005)
The Astronaut Farmer (2006)
The Hard Easy (2006)
Believe in Me (2006)
Walker Payne (2006)
The Golden Boys (2008)
The Hole (2009)
American Cowslip (2009)
The Lightkeepers (2009)
Choose (2011)
Twixt (2011)
Inside Out (2011)