Bruce Davison Quotes

I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and, yet, she completely transforms.

That's the mark of a really great actor, when he can make you feel the emotion without having to search for it.

I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?

There's the craft of acting, and then there's a quality. There's a quality that someone has.

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

I think anybody can be a good actor.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

The number one job of an actor is to be a character and never let the acting show.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

Here's the mark that a lot of people miss nowadays. Producers missed. They leave out the heart and soul. And that's what I learned from Sammy Davis, Jr., from Frank Sinatra, is when you went to go see those shows, you got to know them.

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

With singing, the name of the game is to make yourself believable. When somebody hears you sing a song, and they say, 'Oh, that must have happened to him,' that's when you know you're transmitting. It's like being a good actor. You make people feel things, emotions and what not.