The story of Bruce Willis

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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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