Kevin Durand Quotes

#1. That the Will is always determined by the strongest motive,

Jonathan Edwards

#2. I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare than playing Romeo. That was always boring to me.

Kevin Durand

#3. I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

Kevin Durand

#4. I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think.

Kevin Durand

#5. Confidence is the quiet assurance you are enough.

Ruthie Dean

#6. Old texts say many things. You say these things as though they are special
as if it is unusual for one person to see another in pain, and wish to help. As if, he says quietly, to do the extraordinary
or what you think is extraordinary
a person must be told to do so, by the Divine.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#7. I'm always excited to carry more and more weight and responsibility within a story.

Kevin Durand

#8. As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me. I've always been way more attracted to playing that than the hero.

Kevin Durand

#9. You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

Sarah Gadon

#10. I think the first villain that I ever played was on 'Stargate'. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.

Kevin Durand

#11. There's a whole new set of rules, in this new world. If you don't abide by them, then you'll perish.

Kevin Durand

#12. I cook some damn good eggs!

Kevin Durand

#13. I'm really open to anything that's good. If I read something and it's good, and I like the director, it never really needs to be a specific type of character.

Kevin Durand

#14. A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. When I was laying there in his arms nothing else mattered. My parents, my lack of funds, everything just seemed to melt away as I was lost in his lips- Bentley Evans

Magan Vernon

#16. No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

Baruch Spinoza

#17. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think. Otherwise, you're just cruising down a path that's been traveled millions of times. It's cool to find the strange truth in those moments.

Kevin Durand

#18. I started off as a rapper from Thunder Bay, Ontario, believe it or not. There was a little group of 10 or 12 of us that would get together and copy each other's cassettes. So I was a rapper first, and it was that music that got me into this great entertainment world and got me out of Thunder Bay.

Kevin Durand

#19. A bruised apple is not all bad. It still has tremendous potential.

Seth Adam Smith

#20. A lot of my friends growing up were hunters, but I spent all my time on the ice hurting actual humans playing hockey. I never had the chance to run through the woods and shoot at a moose or deer. I was shooting pucks at goaltender's heads.

Kevin Durand