40 Quotes by Bruce Dern

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

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.

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

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...

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

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

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.

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

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