Dave Bautista Quotes

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

One thing that I don't think I do is play characters. Once you start claiming that you can do something that you're not, you're crazy. I think scripts can really surprise you. You go, "Wow, I did not know that that response could come from me. I did not know that I had that in me." And so, the process of making the movie is just finding that and digging a little deeper.

What I didn't realize about television was that's true of acting, as well. You have that space of time to develop who you are, and you can use more and more of yourself. The lines between that character that I'm playing and myself become more and more blurred and, after awhile, they just disappear, altogether.

I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play.

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

You have to find out how to become the character.

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.

I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

Those things that we probably are ashamed of as human beings, certain things that no one would ever talk about - as actors, when we transform into a character, we empathize with those moments.