Bruce Davison Quotes

United States, Actor
June 28, 1946

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

Also known as Director

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

Bruce Davison
- People
- Sick
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

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
- Life
- Work
- Intelligent
A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

Bruce Davison
- Good
- Interesting
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
- People
- Suffering
- Dying
I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

Bruce Davison
- People
- Positive
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
- Important
- Opportunity
I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

Bruce Davison
- Hate
- Memories

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

Bruce Davison
- Great
Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

Bruce Davison