Charles Bronson Quotes

Times were poor. I wore hand-me-downs. And because the kids just older than me in the family were girls, sometimes I had to wear my sisters‘ hand-me-downs.

We don’t make movies for critics, since they don’t pay to see them anyhow.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

I look like a quarry someone has dynamited.

I hung around New York and did a little stock-company stuff. I wasn’t really sure at that time if I even wanted to be an actor. I got no encouragement.

Maybe I’m too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don’t look like anybody‘s ideal.

In Ehrenfeld, we were all jammed together. All the fathers were foreign-born – Welsh, Irish, Polish, Sicilian. We were so jammed together, we picked up each other’s accents. And we spoke some broken English. When I got into the service, people used to think I was from a foreign country.

I felt along with her – not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can’t be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

The critics never see my role as it is – as a man protecting his garden killing poisonous snakes. Instead, they say it’s just me again committing violence.

I’m entertained more by my own thoughts than by the thoughts of others. I don’t mind answering questions. But in an exchange of conversation, I wind up being a pair of ears.

We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. So, you think maybe there are other answers. There are not but if you belief something will help you it probably will: it will help, not cure.

The fear really hits you. That’s what you feel first. And then it’s the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

I supply a presence. There are never any long dialogue scenes to establish a character.

When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I’d get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.

I don’t have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

I’m only a product like a cake of soap, to be sold as well as possible.