Willis Quotes

It`s funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

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. You`d use a rock or tear one of these chairs out of the floor. Hey, maybe I`ve been watching too many Bruce Willis movies!

I was a foreigner, and I knew that most of the parts I would be offered would be foreigners. I knew I could not compete with Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, and Nicolas Cage, and so I did not fight it. I saw the path I was destined to walk and decided to do the parts that would be offered to me as well as I possibly could. --on his initial career outlook when he first came to the U.S. to act.

It`s related to acting really. I wish I had his career. I remember being in "Remington Steele" (1982) and seeing Bruce Willis go out there and just do it. I thought, "He`s making movies and I`m still here". I just remember that. I remember, ironically, in 1986, I remember going into the old La Scala in Malibu. Bruce was there with Demi (Demi Moore), I had just been offered the Bond in `86 and he said to me, "Well done, man, you got out, way to go." I said, "Thanks, Bruce". Of course, two months later I was high and dry without any Bond in my life or even "Remington Steele". The next thing I see him and he`s off doing his feature films. I always wanted to do movies. I`ve stopped trying to pick myself. Hopefully, you reach a point in life where you leave yourself alone and make peace with your shortcomings, whatever they may be. Education is something for me. I left school at fifteen, sixteen, so I`m always feeling like I got to catch up, got to catch up, got to catch up. That`s something that, you know, you find yourself in a meeting and you`re like, oh boy, we`re going into deep waters. I haven`t read that piece of literature, that`s a piece of information I should have known.

Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn`t get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn`t get along.

I think Kelly Willis is a good writer.

I said Dontrelle Willis before the game. I say Chris now. I faced Chris when he was in Toronto and I thought he was the best I`d ever seen then. He`s better now.

(On Bruce Willis) "We became good friends during A Few Good Men. He was shooting Death Becomes Her right next door and, of course, he`d come over to visit his wife and we started hanging out and have been good friends since. He`s amazing. One of the things I admire, separate from his work which I`ve always enjoyed, is that the people he`s surrounded by are friends he`s known for 25 years or more. It doesn`t feel like a posse. It feels like he created his own family at work, which is pretty admirable. When you`re young and thinking about going into show business your closest friends are the first to say, "Someday you`re going to be famous and we`ll all hang out together." You say, "Yeah, yeah," and it never happens. But I stay in touch with three of my best friends which I`ve known for 35 years. We make an annual trek to Vegas for the Super Bowl and for those three or four days it`s heaven on earth. Bruce is unbelievably generous and loyal and a true inspiration in that regard as well. I love working with him. I love being around him. He`s the party."

It makes it really tough, especially when (Willis) is on a roll,