Top Bruce Willis One-liners

Jason Patric (The Outsider), Bruce Willis (Die Hard, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For) and John Cusack (The Frozen Ground) face off in gripping thriller The Prince on Blu-ray and DVD on 29th December 2014. To celebrate the release of The Prince We have a look at some of Bruce Willis classic one liners…

“Yippee ki-yay motherfucker” John McClane, Die Hard (1988)

Fun Fact: The role of John McClane was offered to a host of actors before Willis including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Gere, Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and even Burt Reynolds.

“The United States government just asked us to save the world. Anybody wanna say no?” Harry Stamper, Armageddon (1998)

Fun Fact: Bruce Willis had a picture of his daughters in front of him to help him cry during his goodbye to Grace.

“This is the ’90s. You don’t just go around punching people. You have to say something cool first” Joe Hallenbeck, The Last Boy Scout (1991)

Fun Fact: Willis’ character Joe mentions “reindeer goat cheese pizza”, which Willis also mentioned in Hudson Hawk (1991).

“Oh, wouldn’t it be great if I WAS crazy? Then the world would be okay.“ James Cole, 12 Monkeys (1995)

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Fun Fact: Terry Gilliam gave Bruce Willis a list of “Willis acting clichés” not to be used during the film, including the “steely blue eyes look”.

“Somebody call the waahmbulance!“ Russ Duritz, The Kid (2000)

Fun Fact: Daniel von Bargen who plays Russ Duritz’s father Sam is only five years older than Willis.

“It doesn’t matter how many people I’ve killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.“ Jimmy Tudeski, The Whole Nine Yards (2000)

Fun Fact: As a result of a bet lost on the set, Bruce Willis agreed to do a guest appearance on Friends (1994) for free; giving his pay for the episode to charity.

“Days change, seasons change, people don’t change.“ Detective Jack Mosley, 16 Blocks (2006)

Fun Fact: In order to make Detective Jack Mosley’s limp look realistic on screen, Bruce Willis put a pebble in his shoe and kept it there throughout the length of the shoot.

“Listen lady, I only speak two languages: English and bad English” Korben Dallas, The Fifth Element (1997)

Fun Fact: This famous quote was never in the script and was actually completely ad-libbed by Willis.

“Zed’s dead baby, Zed’s dead” Butch Coolidge, Pulp Fiction (1994)

Fun Fact: When Bruce Willis escapes the pawn shop, he sees a neon sign that says ‘Killian’s Red’, but as some of the letters are missing it reads ‘Kill ed’. Picking up Zed’s keys, Butch looks at the ‘Z’ on the keyring, subliminally spelling out ‘Kill Zed’. It’s then that Butch goes back to save Marcellus.