Top 33 Ray Stevenson Quotes
#1. I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.
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#2. As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
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#3. The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.
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#4. There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.
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#5. [Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.
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#6. The best piece of advice I've ever been given was, 'Be in the business you're in.' Don't just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business you're in.
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#7. I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.
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#8. Working at night helps people focus in on this crazy little bubble you've created, wherever you are filming. It doesn't matter where the location is, the world doesn't exist outside this bubble. And everyone is trapped inside.
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#9. It's all about the integrity of their characters. They [Marvel] care so much about the loyalty and integrity of each and every character and all of their stories. They trust and love their readership. They're the ones who have invested in these stories.
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#10. When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.
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#11. Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.
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#12. As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that is touching the psyche of a certain age group, facing the real internal questions of people who are going through rites of passage into adulthood. It's earth-shaking stuff.
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#13. I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.
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#14. I like bringing little subtle complexities to a character. It's all about the subtext. No one can really describe or fully know another human being, even if they get a hook on them. It's more about instinctively knowing whether you like somebody or not.
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#15. Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
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#16. I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.
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#17. History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
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#18. It really reminds me of the great movies of the 30's and 40's with huge sets and voluminous fireplaces you could walk around in. Glazed floors. I was expecting a Busby Berkley dance number. Big fanfare and all the girls coming out. I'd have joined in. It's got that scale, you know?
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#19. The weird thing is, in America, people were saying, "You're not going to get recognized because all you're going to see is basically your forehead and eyes."
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#20. The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charles Vane and Blackbeard. How much of that is really documented history? It carries a flavor with it, but take all this with a pinch of salt.
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#21. When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.
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#22. I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.
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#23. Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.
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#24. Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4 in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.
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#25. I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.
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#26. It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.
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#27. Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.
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#28. I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.
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#29. Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.
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#30. If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.
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#31. Hence the genius of having Ken steer this ship as well. You have to invest these characters with a Shakespearian quality and not in a way that might disengage the audience but in a way that actually lets you play to an audience.
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#32. For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.
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#33. You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
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