Dave Bautista famous quotes

03-25-2025

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 #Kids #Hard Work
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
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

#Keys #Youth #Something New
Basketballs dont hold grudges!
-- Dave Bautista

#Basketball #Grudge
Kissing babies and hugging fat girls.
-- Dave Bautista

#Funny #Girl #Baby
Money Talks. Chocolate Sings.
-- Dave Bautista

#Chocolate #Money Talks
For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.
-- Dave Bautista

#Struggle #Men #Reason
Nothing can motivate me any more than I'm motivated.
-- Dave Bautista

#Motivated
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
I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.
-- Dave Bautista

#Character #Who I Am #Talking
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
People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am.
-- Dave Bautista

#Wrestling #Who I Am #People
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.
-- Dave Bautista

#Odd #Moments #Easier
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
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
I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.
-- Dave Bautista

#Character #Men #Actors
I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.
-- Dave Bautista

#Sports #Strong #Passion
I'm creating my niche. My niche is going to be "shirtless guy."
-- Dave Bautista

#Creating #Guy #Niche
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
It's never boring in makeup.
-- Dave Bautista

#Makeup #Boring
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
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
I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.
-- Dave Bautista

#Passion #School #Juniors
The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.
-- Dave Bautista

#Tears #Pieces #Months

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