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.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Time
  • Night
  • Poetry

• 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.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Music
  • Cool
  • Couple

• What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Funny
  • Responsible
  • Who Am I

• Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • World
  • Real
  • Progress

• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Done
  • Job
  • Effort

• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Wise
  • Circumstances
  • Weak

• 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.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Words

• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Kids

• That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Like
  • Dark
  • Break

• 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.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• 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.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • You
  • Cannot
  • Govern

• So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Women
  • Love
  • Fall

• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Myself
  • Optimist
  • Pragmatic

• Stick a camera up in an Indian village, and thousands of people come to watch.

  

  Art Malik
  • People
  • Up

• Lawyers don't run sales forces.

  

  Jeff Raikes
  • Sales

• The issue Israeli-Palestinian conflict, already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Important
  • Suffering

• I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall to work on early childhood education. I really feel that's the most important place to put the arts.

  

  Agnes Gund
  • Work
  • Important
  • Education

• I think one of the most important American films is 'Jackie Brown,' which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the '90s.

  

  Arnaud Desplechin
  • Important
  • American
  • Powerful

• 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