The story of Bruce Willis

Brut America

He went to drama school to overcome his stutter and became one of the world’s biggest movie stars. Now, he’s stepping away from acting due to a condition affecting his cognitive abilities  …   This is the story of Bruce Willis.

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00:00I think the sexiness comes from not trying to be sexy.

00:03I think coolness comes from ignoring the concept of coolness.

00:07It's so much harder to do comedy, and at the same time much more fun to do comedy,

00:34than it is to run down the street with a gun in my hand screaming.

00:59I realized that when I was on stage, my stutter disappeared.

01:04Of course, I couldn't be on stage my whole life, and my stutter continued until I was in school at Montclair State College.

01:28As soon as the world finds out he's got a pulse, he's going to make one hell of a suspect.

01:31And that makes us accessories. Accessories to murder.

01:34Unless we pick up the phone right now and call the police.

01:36Accessories?

01:37Accessories. Batteries not included. Action figures sold separately.

01:54It takes some pride in the fact that I have a job that can entertain people from time to time.

02:24If you're watching, Mr. Seagram, I want to thank you for bringing us Seagram's Golden Wine Cooler.

02:54I see dead people.

03:18Sometimes you feel it inside, like you're falling down real fast.

03:22Do you ever feel the prickly things on the back of your neck?

03:25Yes.

03:26That's them.

03:27Being the scientist that I am, I just think that it was just a really brilliant script.

03:35And he could have gotten anybody to do the film.

03:39He could have gotten any group of actors.

03:41And I feel very fortunate that I was asked to be included in the cast.

03:53You are a man.

03:57Still got it.

04:02It's more rewarding if you can make people laugh.

04:10And personally, it takes some pride in the fact that I have a job that can entertain people from time to time.

04:22Here to support the American and allied troops over here.

04:44Not that many people come over here.

04:49I wanted to come over and see what was going on and just lend my support.

04:58You know, yeah, we used to be on the same team together.

05:01I had to remember a lot of lines.

05:03No, I'm just making it up.

05:05It was great.

05:06It was really fun.

05:07It was just fun and exciting.

05:09And great to hang with my friends and act with them.

05:21Do you think the day will come when John McClane will hang up his boots and will pass the reins of the franchise onto the young boy?

05:28Maybe not.

05:29Maybe I'll just live to be a thousand years old.

05:39I'm going to be working until it's just a bag of bones and I'll talk like this.

06:08I'm rolling.

06:10And I'll just do one little thing.

06:13I'll fire one last bullet is what I'll do and that will be the end of it.

06:19Die hard 212.

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