Bruce Davison Quotations

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

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.

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

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I'd like to tell them thank you. Their courage and ambition to get a higher education ... is something I truly admire. It's something I can't picture, but it's something I know happened, and that's why I commend them for doing what they've done.

I feel that accomplishment was really great. It was really showing change was coming and basically opened up doors for those that would like to get an education.

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

Special effects that are computer-generated are really able to create all these worlds.