Top 33 Die Hard Quotes

My dad says I was an extra in ‘Die Hard.’ I think it’s true.

Actually, ‘Die Hard’ was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through ‘Die Hard’ in the theater as an infant.

I went to NYU thinking I was going to make a ‘Die Hard’ sequel, or maybe action and genre films for the studios, but I ended up falling in love with personal cinema.

The first time I re-discovered the joy of watching an action movie was when I saw ‘Die Hard.’ It was a completely simple plot – a guy goes to meet his wife, and the building gets taken over by terrorists – but I was completely blown away. Great characters, and it moved along really fast.

I think true connectivity is something that is rare in sequels. I mean I love the first ‘Die Hard’ film; you won’t find a bigger ‘Die Hard’ fan than me. But I feel like with the sequels, they’re just taking that character and dropping him in different scenarios. There’s no real connective tissue.

In the past, kids didn’t tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, ‘Get out of our house.’ There’s a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.

I loved the ‘Die Hard’ films growing up and the ‘Taken’ movies. They’re so entertaining, and I enjoy being on the edge of my seat.

I think I saw ‘Rushmore’ my senior year in high school. You know, Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, there’s such a voice to those movies. It’s not like ‘Die Hard’ where it’s like, ‘Oh, this is an adventure. It just happened.’ It’s like you can hear the voice. I was like, ‘Oh, I want to do that.’

Old habits die hard. I don’t like spending money willy-nilly.

Old habits die hard, and if you’re not careful, the person you used to be can overtake the person you’re trying to become.

I really like action movies. The ‘Die Hard’ franchise. And the ‘Bourne’ movies.

We were going to do ‘Reno 911!: New York, New York, Las Vegas,’ which was like a ‘Die Hard’ set not in New York, but in the New York, New York casino in Las Vegas. We were really excited about being locked into the one casino and doing a bad action movie.

I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie ‘Die Hard.’ I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, ‘I wanna do that.’ It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

I loved ‘Life is Beautiful’ and action films are great, like ‘Die Hard.’ My favourite is the mob film – ‘Goodfellas,’ ‘The Godfather,’ ‘Once Upon a Time In America,’ anything with Robert De Niro in it.

My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I’m just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’ is good proof of that.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Metal fans have a connection. There is something there; just like the wrestling world, they are die hard about wrestling, and it’s that passion that makes you enjoy what you do. That is why I go to metal shows; you watch these dudes on stage just shredding and letting loose. You can’t help but love it.

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.

I am a die hard fan of Lucknow food, so whenever I am in city I make sure to have the famous kebabs.

As for the best ’80s action movie, I’m going to be predictable here and say ‘Die Hard.’ I watch that movie at least twice a year. Perfect script.

I wasn’t one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like ‘Die Hard,’ ‘Predator,’ ‘Aliens,’ ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’

But it’s much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it’s more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world… not make a fast buck. Call me a romantic, but I think entrepreneurs should try to change the world. This comes from working at Apple… old habits die hard.

The first movie I really clicked with was ‘Die Hard’ when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

When you first see MacGruber working on the bomb, in the initial opening credits, that bomb was a replica of the ‘Die Hard’ bomb. The love runs deep for ’80s action movies.

‘Comic book’ has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people’s minds. So someone will call ‘Die Hard’ a ‘comic-book movie,’ when it has nothing to do with comic books. I’d rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

I didn’t even know how to judge ‘Die Hard 1.’ It’s not anything I know how to judge. I’d never seen an action movie. I’d never seen a Sly Stallone movie or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Charles Bronson movie. And that is the truth.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

I love Halloween – I’m a die hard.

‘Die Hard’ was a really awesome experience, but I was too young to understand what a big film it was.

I don’t consider roles like in ‘Die Hard’ what I do. This is like a hobby. It’s fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it’s about things getting blown up. It’s not about great character development.

After I did the first Die Hard I said I’d never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.

My favorite movie is ‘Die Hard.’ It doesn’t have pinatas and mariachis. It’s just a good movie.