Quotes by Bruce Davison

About Bruce Davison:

Bruce Davison is an American actor and director. Davison is well known for his Academy Award nominated performance in Longtime Companion (1989), which also awarded him a Golden Globe. Davison has also appeared in the first two films of the X-Men film franchise – X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003) – portraying antagonist Senator Robert Kelly. In more recent times, Davison has appeared in films such as Titanic II (2010), Return of the Killer Shrews (2012), and Saving Lincoln (2013).
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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

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

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

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

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

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

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

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

Bruce Davison

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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameBruce Davison
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornJune 28, 1946
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director