Bruce Campbell Quotes

When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies.

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun

For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'

All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.

We make our own problems every time. Everything that we complain about is something we can solve.

If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.

Every word out of my mouth is a word that I've approved.

Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive.

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

I don't say any word that I don't approve.

Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

If you ain't got socks, you ain't got much. But if you got 'em, you might as well pull 'em up. It's a statement of self-sufficiency. We should all be more self-governed.

Actors are always going to have a little bit of themselves in everything.

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.

It's very gratifying that someone likes what you're selling.

You have to have horror that is entertaining, where you can laugh. Most people don't want you to laugh at horror. They just want you to just be disgusted and terrified.

I've managed to make a living in a very ridiculous business, and that's fine with me. The trick now is, after you've been in it for a while, you still have to remember to have fun.

You're not looking for the Rolls Royce and the big fancy trailer. Those are supposed to be the byproducts of having fun and then getting good at what you do.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too.

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.

It's smart to have a set of younger actors. People don't always want to look at me. They want to look at other people.

If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.

Digital blood is not effective.

I'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist.

I like the TV format. I like how fast it is.

I think having simplicity doesn't always mean that you make a good movie. I have a theory that a movie that's easy to make is hard to watch.

I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

You'll lose about two million brain cells every minute that goes by.

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.

Everybody's got brain matter in their hair, and somehow that makes it a very happy workplace.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.