Dave Bautista Quotes

As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

I have learnt to become patient as an actor.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.

For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

I love acting classes. I think they're great. It's like working out in the gym. It's a great place to figure out everything that's working and what isn't working.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

It took many years of acting classes to get even remotely comfortable, but that's OK. It helped me so much on a personal level, not to mention professionally.

I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.

My modus operandi is to become a better actor.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.

After I found that I had become an actor, slightly to my surprise, I did have some insecurity, and I did take some rather strange acting classes at a place called The Actor's Studio in London. I don't think they did me any good at all.