Bruce on the loose

It's been almost two decades since Die Hard blasted into the action-movie stratosphere, rocketing Bruce Willis into big-screen orbit and launching a franchise that has grossed nearly $1 billion worldwide. In Live Free or Die Hard, which hits theatres in late June, Willis plays John McClane for the fourth time.

And if all this excitement is tempting you, like it did me, to pick up a copy of this month's Vanity Fair, the one with Bruce on the cover, let me spare you the £4.50 by revealing here first the two best quotes from his interview:

1. "I am for stopping world aggression. And sometimes that takes punching guys in the face. And keep punching 'em until they don't get up anymore. So the president didn't say the right thing. Who cares? Politicians misspeak and make mistakes all the fucking time. He said the war was about weapons of mass destruction. But because they didn't find all of them, it was bullshit? Not really. They know for a fact that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, chemical-gas agents. They could be buried somewhere in the desert. He could have moved them, overnight, across the border, into Syria — and we can't go into Syria."

2. "Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?"