He was known as a grumpy, difficult man (not only because of his weight), cranky and without patience or any desire to please others. What he despised most was sycophantic behavior and fake politeness.
He loved homemade rakija and poetry. He could take a pencil and paper and write a good poem or verse…
Listing his acting achievements is no easy task. Just some of his famous roles include Paja from “Kamiondžije” (The Truck Drivers), Joca from “Otpisani”, Miško’s father from “Who’s Singin’ Over There?”, Milutin Topalović from the film “The Marathon Family”…
He acted in many Yugoslav films dealing with the Second World War and the Partisan struggle. But privately he couldn’t stand any of that, as he was a sworn anti-communist and persistently refused to meet President Tito. On one occasion, however, he did meet Broz—after the premiere of the film “The Battle of Neretva,” when two officers picked him up from his river barge and took him to the White Palace. The cantankerous actor refused to dress up formally, so he appeared before the president in his fisherman’s outfit. With a bottle of whiskey, they talked for about an hour, and to this day no one knows about what.
Vuisić never completed even a day of acting school, could not stand Miodrag Petrović-Čkalja, and about his acting—which he pursued, as he said, solely for money—he remarked: “I don’t act, I behave.”
It is also known that the great Orson Welles once said that Pavle Vuisić was a man he sincerely admired and whom he considered to be surely one of the best actors he had seen in his career.
