Bruce Davison Quotes

I like doing roles that stretch me.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different personalities from my own. I get to say things I normally wouldn't say or act in ways I normally wouldn't act. After all, such roles are more challenging because you really have to immerse yourself in the character.

It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.

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.

It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

I just want to be a better actor. You can always get better.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.

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

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

It's just so much more exciting to have no limits and to be able to take your character as far as you want or need to get where you want to go.

As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know.

I like pushing myself as an actor.

The protagonists that I've played tend to be people who make trouble. Or even if they don't make it, they certainly disrupt things. It's fun to do that in life as well. But I don't think I ever played myself.

I always had a dramatic flair. I'd like to dress up like a cowboy, play make-believe. But I didn't realize acting was something I had to do until I got to college.

It's taken me a long time to get work, so that's why I like to play really different characters that are really foreign to me. I want it to be something great, and I want to have a great experience.

I think sometimes you can think up a story, but it's because you're comfortable doing that, but when you're an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.

I would love to play roles that continue to challenge and push me in different directions - emotionally, mentally, and physically as well.

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

I have become a nicer person after every film I have done.