Bruce Dern Quotes

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.

Bruce Dern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 4, 1936

Topics

PeopleLessonBackTrailForgetShe

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

John Francis Daley

GreatChildDownActorWriteAlways

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

Roald Dahl

MyselfBraveDownSoldiersOutGot

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'

Joyce Meyer

JoyHappyPeopleMeDoingYou

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

Josh Billings

BestManThingsHeEverDoes

It's really sad down there. Everyone's sitting around asking to help and BP won't let anybody do anything. People are coming down to help. People want to help.

Austin Nichols

SadPeopleHelpDownWantSitting

But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.

Anthony Doerr

YourselfBookEndReachYouSay

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

William Wordsworth

BusinessTiredSolitudeWorldSick

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

Suzi Quatro

BelieveLongYouRightHypeOwn

But when I do get recognized, I get recognized usually for 'Firefly.'

Sean Maher

GetRecognized

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

Norman Lamm

SchoolLawLaw SchoolMidwifeTwin

I love to write what I see and what I do and what I experience, and I like to see if people can relate to that. I don't know if I am as good at making up a story in my head that has no truth to it, so that is a challenge for me.

Nikki Reed

LoveGoodTruthChallengeExperience

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

Richard Dawkins

MistakeThinkTalkingClarityDesire

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