Bruce Davison Quotes

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

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• Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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

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• 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.

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

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Bruce Davison (10)

Birth:	28th June, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Television Director

About

Bruce Davison was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is an American actor and director. Davison is well known for his Academy Award nominated performance in Longtime Companion, which also awarded him a Golden Globe. Davison has also appeared in the first two films of the X-Men film franchise - X-Men and X2 - portraying antagonist Senator Robert Kelly. In more recent times, Davison has appeared in films such as Titanic II, Return of the Killer Shrews, and Saving Lincoln. He attended NYU's Graduate Acting Program, graduating in 1969. In 1981 he had the lead role in The Wave, based on real events, starring as a history teacher who had conducted an experiment in Nazi philosophy on his own students. In 2010 he starred in the TV movie Titanic II. In 2011 he starred as Police Chief Kirkhoven in the movie "Munger Road". The next year, he appeared in Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem.

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