Bruce Willis Quotes

“I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.”

— Bruce Willis

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

— 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

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

— 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 just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls.”

— Bruce Willis

“I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.”

— 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

“Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.”

— 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

“I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.”

— Bruce Willis

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

— Bruce Willis

“I'm happy every day.”

— 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 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

“Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.”

— Bruce Willis

“I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.”

— Bruce Willis

“Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.”

— 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 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

“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 had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.”

— Bruce Willis

“I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.”

— 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

“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 wake up laughing every day. I get a kick out of life.”

— 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 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

“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

“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

“Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder?”

— Bruce Willis

“Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?”

— 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 is nothing better than strolling down the beach the way God made you.”

— 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

“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

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

“They hear you own up, and they learn to own up.”

— 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 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

“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

“My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.”

— Bruce Willis

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

— 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

“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

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

— Bruce Willis

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

— 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

“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