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Bruce Willis

He is well known for playing hard-edged characters in top-grossing films like Expendables, G.I Joe, The Fifth Element and the Die Hard series. Loved by his fans, Bruce Willis gave back with life-changing words of inspiration. With his enormous success, he also has a lot to say about how he achieved all of it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

They look right. And you move left.