A biography for Charles Bronsonhasn’t been written yet.
“I can play the character better because of the roundness of my experience - because of the things I've been through. All those method guys - like that De Niro, Stallone, and what's his name, Pacino - they're all the same.”
“We don't make movies for critics, since they don't pay to see them anyhow.”
“Don't ask me to explain a mystique. I'm just enjoying all this while it lasts. I'm basically doing the same thing I was doing 20 years ago.”
“I'm entertained more by my own thoughts than by the thoughts of others. I don't mind answering questions. But in an exchange of conversation, I wind up being a pair of ears.”
“I hung around New York and did a little stock-company stuff. I wasn't really sure at that time if I even wanted to be an actor. I got no encouragement.”
“Nobody wants to die! So why do people let themselves go?Why kill yourself off?Stop and think, get fit and strong! Even a good shag will burn the calories off and pump your heart!There is no excuse - you know it!”
“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.”
“I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.”
“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.”