Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Davison

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Bruce Davison.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Bruce Allen Davison is an American actor and director. Davison is well known for his starring role as Willard Stiles in the cult horror film Willard (1971) and his Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning performance in Longtime Companion (1989), and as Thomas Semmes in the HBO original movie Vendetta. He featured in the X-Men film franchise – through X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003) – as antagonist Senator Robert Kelly.

American - Actor | Born: June 28, 1946

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That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

Bruce Davison

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

Bruce Davison

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Bruce Davison

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

Bruce Davison

It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.

Bruce Davison

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

Bruce Davison

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

Bruce Davison

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

Bruce Davison

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.

Bruce Davison

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

Bruce Davison

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

Bruce Davison

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.

Bruce Davison

We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.

Bruce Davison

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

Bruce Davison