Bruce Davison Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”