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Bruce Willis
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Paradigms, especially old ones, die harder than Bruce Willis.
— James Adovasio, quoted in In Quest of the Dates of the Vedas, 2014, by Premendra Priyadarshi.
Bruce Willis
American actor (born 1955)
- Fame79.3
- Momentum24.1
- Actors rank#116
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- Fame79.3
- Momentum24.1
- Actors rank#116
- Wikipedia1.3M
Born 1955 · age 71United States
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Updated 2026-08-31
He turned wisecracking vulnerability into an action-star archetype—John McClane in a blood-stained undershirt—then spent three decades proving he could do more than survive explosions, before a flood of direct-to-video work and a dementia diagnosis ended the run in 2022.
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Born March 19, 1955, Willis broke through on the comedy-drama Moonlighting from 1985 to 1989, then became an unlikely action anchor with Die Hard in 1988 and its four sequels through 2013. Over a hundred films followed: Pulp Fiction in 1994, 12 Monkeys in 1995, The Fifth Element in 1997, The Sixth Sense in 1999, Unbreakable and The Whole Nine Yards both in 2000, then Sin City, Red, Looper, and Glass across the next two decades. His late-career years saw a cascade of low-budget direct-to-video releases, poorly received, before he retired in 2022 with aphasia and received a frontotemporal dement…
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Bruce Willis
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This is the same fight the US fought 60 years ago
— Referring to the War on Terror. On Rita Cosby’s Sunday MSNBC program, November 14, 2005.
Bruce Willis
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The terrorists today are much the same as those we fought in WW II.
— On Rita Cosby’s Sunday MSNBC program, November 14, 2005.
Bruce Willis
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This is the war on terrorism; it's worth fighting for.
— Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003.
Bruce Willis
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I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.
— Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003.
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- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- New Jersey Hall of Fame
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