Bruce Willis, one-liner legend: our favorite Brucie quotes from his life on the screen

During the announcement of Bruce Willis' retirement from acting due to his health struggles, his family quotes one of the actor's favourite real-life quotes, "As Bruce always says, 'Live it up' and together we plan to do just that," the statement said from the Willis family. Looking back over his career, he has coined some incredible phrases over the years as he took on a number of roles in Hollywood. We look at the best Brucie quotes.

Possibly his best known character, smart mouthed, vest wearing, no nonsense cop John Mclane. Locked in skyscraper with a bunch of terrorists, Willis tries to call on the outside world to help and finally gets police attention after throwing one of the terrorists off the roof and on to a passing police car.

“Welcome to the party Powell.”

Another Die Hard beauty. After making a call to warn the Police of terrorists in the building Bruce's character is told that this line is for emergencies only. "Do I sound like I'm ordering a pizza?"

In 'The Sixth Sense,' Willis plays a struggling child psychologist who is trying to help a young boy with problems, trying to save his marriage and opening doors that should probably remain shut.

“I think I can go now. Just needed to do a couple of things. I needed to help someone; I think I did. And I needed to tell you something: you were never second, ever. I love you. You sleep now. Everything will be different in the morning.”

The spectacular 'Pulp Fiction', where Bruce Willis plays a fighter at the end of his career. He upsets the wrong people and risks everything for his father’s watch, the story of which is told majestically by the amazing Christopher Walken.

“Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.”

In Die Hard 4.0 Bruce is back to his destructive best. Bruce needs to eliminate some bad guys but has no ammunition left. Matt Farrell: "You just killed a helicopter with a car?" John McClane: "I was out of bullets."

In the blockbuster 'Armageddon', Nasa recruits a team of deep-core drillers, after discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month.

"I ain't gonna kill him. I’m just gonna take one foot off him. A man can work with one foot."

Frank Miller's 'Sin City' - based on the graphic novel - is visually stunning and Bruce Willis does what he does best and plays a grumpy ageing policeman who is trying to protect a young woman from a serial killer with friends in high places. Brutal, violent and brilliant.

"And after I pull of that miracle, maybe I’ll go punch out God."

A deadly virus wipes out almost all of humanity, forcing survivors to live underground. All that is known is a group called the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is believed to have released the virus. Bruce Willis must stop the virus before it is released. Brilliant sci-fi film co-starring Brad Pitt.

“Look at them. They’re just asking for it. Maybe the human race deserves to be wiped out.”

In Luc Besson’s colourful sci-fi movie Willis plays a taxi driver who gets caught up in the middle of a battle to save the planet when a god like weapon crashes through the roof of his cab.

"Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for conversation, but maybe you could just shut up for a moment."

The brilliant unconventional super hero film. As usual Bruce plays a troubled unhappy man who unexplainably is the only survivor in a terrible train accident. Little by little he discovers that he is pretty much unbreakable. Top cast including Samuel L Jackson.

“I want to ask you a question. It’s gonna sound strange, just think about it for a second, okay. When was the last time I was sick? Do you remember?”

Back to where it all began. Running for five seasons, this comedy drama was set in a detective agency with some weird an wonderful characters. Mystery, one-liners and a huge will they won’t they situation between Willis and Shepherd the co stars.

“I don't know about you, but I for one, I for one, hit my knees every night and thank the man upstairs that there is a little bit of dishonesty left in this otherwise sunny world. You just think about that. That's all I have to say.”

An American crime comedy movie with an all star cast, popular enough to produce a sequel. Another chance for Bruce to be the hitman.

"It's not important how many people I’ve killed. What's important is how I get along with the people who are still alive."

Four more instalments came after the first 'Die Hard' film and each were stand out in their own right. John McClain continuous his 'grumpy cop' routine with an array of disasters he has to overcome.

Bruce has to fight the bad guys barefoot. After killing a terrorist he steals his shoes and we hear the line: "Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister."

Dark and action packed with some of the best one-liners ever. Bruce Willis plays an ex Presidential bodyguard with a bad attitude and a smart mouth.

"This is the nineties, you can’t just walk up and slap a guy. You have to say something cool first."

After being captured by the bad guys, the evil henchman wants to do a formal introduction. Bruce responds with 'who gives a f$3k, you're the bad guy right?' the baddies replies ' I am the bad guy' Bruce then says ' and I'm supposed to be trembling with fear, something like that?' baddie replies 'something like that' to which Bruce quips 'fine I'll start trembling in a minute.'

After discovering his wife had an affair, she tries to explain to him why she did it. 'I was lonely Joe, you were never around'. Bruce's response? 'Buy a dog'.

A break from the action movie, Bruce Plays a brilliant doctor who is caught in a love triangle with two women desperate to keep their youthful looks. Wonderful comedy with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn.

"Where did you put my wife? The morgue? She'll be furious."

In this 1991 movie Bruce plays a newly released convict trying to go straight, but is blackmailed into stealing a priceless piece of art.

Not really a quote, as such, but Bruce carries out a wonderfully choreographed robbery to the tune of 'Swinging On a Star'.