Latest Dave Bautista Quotes from Interviews

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• If I could get myself to a place where I felt secure and I wouldn't have to kind of worry about money and I know my family would be secure, then I would leave the big studios so I could continue to make smaller films, and hopefully get to direct a few of them, too.

  Dave Bautista

  Worry, Would Be, Kind

  Source: dailydead.com

• I'm more a fan of old-school films with really interesting stories and good performances. That's what I'd like to do.

  Dave Bautista

  Old School, Interesting, Fans

  Source: dailydead.com

• My ultimate goal is actually to direct and develop projects. I don't want them to be big projects with a lot of special effects because that's not really what appeals to me.

  Dave Bautista

  Goal, Special, Want

  Source: dailydead.com

• I want to play the regular guy who's had a bit of a jaded past or a bit of a tortured soul because I think they're interesting.

  Dave Bautista

  Thinking, Past, Play

  Source: dailydead.com

• I love playing different characters. I just do. I want to play even more quirky and interesting characters and just something that people wouldn't automatically think that I would be. I want to go against the grain a bit and I'm hoping people will be open-minded enough to cast me in stuff that's going against the grain.

  Dave Bautista

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: dailydead.com

• I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

  Dave Bautista

  Character, Men, Actors

  Source: dailydead.com

• I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

  Dave Bautista

  Character, Thinking, Certain

  Source: dailydead.com

• If you do an indie film, where it's like, "We don't have a lot of money to give you, but we'll really give you a lot of freedom," that's really a luxury to have in this business. At least for myself, because I'm still kind of earning my acting credibility.

  Dave Bautista

  Luxury, Giving, Acting

  Source: dailydead.com

• I really feel like indie films are where I learn to be a better actor, especially because they always give you a bit more freedom to collaborate.

  Dave Bautista

  Giving, Actors, Film

  Source: dailydead.com

• It's really a great luxury to have, to be able to go from big films to indie films, too. Because I'm on the job learning as an actor, and independent films is where I'm learning to act.

  Dave Bautista

  Jobs, Independent, Luxury

  Source: dailydead.com

• I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

  Dave Bautista

  Stars, Challenges, Acting

  Source: dailydead.com

• The acting stuff is more important to me than actually being a big star.

  Dave Bautista

  Stars, Important, Acting

  Source: dailydead.com

• I didn't want to take the typical action roles that everybody was expecting me to take, because I was going to get typecast as that guy, the action guy who didn't have anything really bright to say and who just kicked in doors and punched people in the face and shot people and drove off in a cool car. I didn't want to be that guy.

  Dave Bautista

  Doors, Car, People

  Source: dailydead.com

• I'm creating my niche. My niche is going to be "shirtless guy."

  Dave Bautista

  Creating, Guy, Niche

  Source: collider.com

• It's never boring in makeup.

  Dave Bautista

  Makeup, Boring

  Source: collider.com

• It's much easier when you have your co-workers who are just, they're there in the moment. If you were out of the moment, you would feel odd.

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  Odd, Moments, Easier

  Source: collider.com

• Nothing can motivate me any more than I'm motivated.

  Dave Bautista

  Motivated

  Source: collider.com

• I spent my whole life being very shy and introverted and I kind of found my release and therapy in the gym. I became this big, menacing physical stature of a man but internally I'm still kind of insecure. Warm, fuzzy and gooey.

  Dave Bautista

  Insecure, Men, Fuzzy

  Tommy2 Interview, tommy2.net. December 10, 2014.

• In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing. Whereas you move it into this more intimate thing, everything gets all quiet, someone says action, and you have to say the lines and make the words your own. It couldn't be any more different and it's weird sometimes trying to explain that to people. When I tell people that acting is much more terrifying to me than going out in front of ten thousand people, they don't quite believe it because for some reason that intimacy is just terrifying to me.

  Dave Bautista

  Moving, Believe, Wrestling

  "From Wrestling To Acting: An Interview With Dave Bautista". Interview with Phil Brown, www.cgmagonline.com. August 01, 2014.

• If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].

  Dave Bautista

  Learning Something New, Keys, Youth

  Source: collider.com

• I'm not afraid to go up to people and pick their brains and ask for advice. To me, that's how you get better. That's how I've gotten better at everything I've ever done. Don't be too proud to ask for help.

  Dave Bautista

  People, Advice, Brain

  Source: collider.com

• I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.

  Dave Bautista

  Dream, Hard Work, Kids

  Source: collider.com