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Bruce Willis
I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

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

I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimillionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.

[on how he stays in shape, interview in People.com, 10 March 2005] Mostly weight resistance training, almost an hour of cardio at least three times a week. I have a gym in my house in Los Angeles and a gym trailer that I can take on the road with me when I'm on location. At my house there's a very long steep driveway. I do wind sprints that kick my 50-year-old ass. It's part of my job. I have come to associate working out as work. Whenever I don't have to do it for films, I kind of slack off.

I am a sensitive guy. People think they know the real me, but they don't. And then they write things that make me sound like such a jerk.

I hate working out. I work out for films solely. I associate working out with films. As soon as they stop, I stop working out.

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.

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

I am baffled to understand why the things that I saw happening in Iraq, really good things happening in Iraq, are not being reported on.

[on "Hudson Hawk"] I always thought it was a little ahead of its time, a little too hip for the room.

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 I ever did run I would run on the platform that I did all these bad things, but I no longer do them, and during the four years of being president or whatever office it might be, I would be good and serve my country. I want to serve my country.

I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government

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