Bruce Davison Quotes
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.
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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When Bruce Lee gets his cameo in 'The Green Hornet' - as one of the drawings in Kato's notebook - it clarifies what the film is: an unrealized sketch. A sketch can afford to allude to a point of view. Moviemakers need to show their point of view, something this shrug of a movie never gets around to doing.
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In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.
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You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.
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The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do.
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Tech is not looking for inclusion per se, but they're looking for assimilation. They're looking for Blacks and Latinos and women, but they are looking for these groups as versions of themselves.
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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.
