Charles Bronson Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

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

I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.

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.

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.

I look like a quarry someone has dynamited.

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

I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down.

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

Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. 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.

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.

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

When you love someone you feel their pain. It's why some husbands go through morning sickness when their wives are pregnant. But to ever talk about it is difficult. I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her.

Trivia

The final line he delivered on screen, in Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion, was "We're gonna have a baby and I can't wait."

Bronson's favorite film role was Once Upon a Time in the West. Ironically, he got this role only after Clint Eastwood declined it.

Bronson was by most accounts a very quiet and introspective collaborator, often sitting in a corner for much of a shoot and listening to a director's instructions and not saying a word until cameras were rolling.

His final film was Death Wish V.

Bronson and fellow actor Ernest Borgnine, in costume as Mexican bandits, were reportedly detained and questioned by Mexican police while on their way to work on the film Vera Cruz in 1954.

Bronson starred in the ABC TV detective series Man With a Camera from 1958-60.

Bronson co-starred with James Coburn in three films: The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Hard Times.

Though he'd been popular in Europe for many years, Bronson didn't become a major star in the United States until 1974's Death Wish.

Bronson was known as "le monster sacre" to the French movie going public. Le monster sacre means the sacred monster.

Bronson once played a Gypsy bootlegger on an episode of The Untouchables entitled The Death Tree.

In The Dirty Dozen, Bronson's character was the only one of the "dozen" to survive the mission.

Director Sergio Leone once called Bronson the greatest actor he ever worked with.

Bronson spoke fluent Russian, Lithuanian, and Greek.

According to one report, he took his stage name Bronson from the Bronson Gate to Paramount Studios.

He originally billed under his real name of Charles Buchinsky when he entered movies but later changed his last name to Bronson.

Bronson was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in combat during World War II.

According to one report, Bronson was once forced to wear his sister's dress to school because his family was so poor and he had no other clothes.

Bronson was one of 15 children of Polish and Lithuanian immigrant parents.

With his death on August 30, 2003, Robert Vaughn is the only one of the seven main stars of