Bruce Campbell Quotes

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

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

If you have it you don't need it. If you need it, you don't have it. If you have it, you need more of it. If you have more of it, you don't need less of it. You need it to get it. And you certainly need it to get more of it. But if you don't already have any of it to begin with, you can't get any of it to get started, which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place, do you? You can share it, sure. You can even stockpile it if you like. But you can't fake it. Wanting it. Needing it. Wishing for it. The point is if you've never had any of it ever people just seem to know.

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

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

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

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.

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

The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

You have to be careful with fans, they'll turn on you. They turn quick. Twitter can go dark fast. If you talk about something serious on Twitter, you better be ready. If you try to pull out real facts or talk about political opinions or something religious, forget it. Like if people asked me who I was voting for, you couldn't touch that one.

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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

I'm wearing three hats; I'm acting, producing, and directing. I was very involved in developing the script, too. But to me, that is very liberating. To me, the lower the budget, the more I want to be involved. I want to be more in control of my own destiny when there isn't much money involved, because you don't have the experts who can control your destiny.

I'm sick of over-trained heroes. I'm really bored with that. Guys that are just ripped to shreds and full of skills. That's boring me. Give me the mechanic that picks up a weapon. Now I'm interested. That's my hero.

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

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

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

Evil Dead needs a very specific home. Movies are mostly unrated, but on television who the heck was doing that stuff? And now the doors opened a little bit with companies like Starz. They were the only suitor that was going to let us have content that was unrestricted.

Funny stories on set - there are thousands of them, but they are only funny to the people who were on the movies. You start to have inside jokes and gallows humor. You have all kinds of things you laugh at, but as soon as you tell somebody, the joke falls flat because they don't know the context of it.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

The prospects were depressing: Adulthood meant that I'd have to stop having fun and do something I didn't really want to do for the rest of my life – which was apparently a considerable chunk of time.

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.

Digital blood is not effective.

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

Studios might cast an actor because he is too tall next to the leading lady, who is too short, or they might not cast your guy because he's blond, and they wanted a brunette. There's all kinds of reasons why they want one person over another. I don't worry about it, but it can hurt sometimes if you really wanted something, if you really went after something.