"A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening." - Bruce Davison
"Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part." - Bruce Davison
"Characters that have a journey - that's what I find most interesting." - Bruce Davison
"Don't take it personally when you are rejected. Be simple. Be truthful. That's pretty much what Hume Cronyn used to tell me." - Bruce Davison
"From there I ended up - my theater history graduate teacher student, a girl named Theresa Germanese, she basically said, 'You've got to get out of here. You've got to go to New York and be an actor. I'm kicking you out." - Bruce Davison
"Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything." - Bruce Davison
"I ended up auditioning for things, and I got a play. I got the lead in a play in Penn State. Oh Dad, Poor Dad. From that it lead to summer stock, and from summer stock, it was just I was gaga. I was going." - Bruce Davison
"I get influenced by everybody I work with: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Burt Lancaster, Warren Oates, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy." - Bruce Davison
"I just love the work of acting, that role of processing. It's something you can keep working on until you drop." - Bruce Davison
"I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that." - 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
"I think everything has slacked off since the AIDS cocktails. The awareness of AIDS may be down, especially in other countries - in Europe, Africa. In Africa, it's worse." - Bruce Davison
"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 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
"I was into casting at an early age." - Bruce Davison
"I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that." - Bruce Davison
"I've been rewriting a screenplay for 20 years, Carroll O'Connor optioned it at one time, and turned it into I guess CPO Sharkey. But I'm sort of revisiting it now, and it's a great time because it was right at the time just before Vietnam, during the Bay of Pigs." - Bruce Davison
"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
"'Longtime Companion' certainly changed everything for me, and 'X-Men' took away everybody remembering me as David." - Bruce Davison
"My mother was a secretary for John B. Kelly, who was Grace Kelly's dad, in Philadelphia - 'Kelly for Brickwork.' I think he was the guy in the Young Philadelphians played by Brian Dennehy." - Bruce Davison
"That letting-go scene in 'Longtime Companion' has so much resonance for people. It's sort of a door, a passage that everybody has to go through - a sort of archetypical homage for everybody." - Bruce Davison
"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
"There are women in South Africa getting AIDS so that they can get the government benefits that come with having AIDS - so they can eat. We have a problem here, but when you look at in the world, it's pretty staggering." - Bruce Davison
"You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick." - Bruce Davison
