Ray Walston Quotes

#1. I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson.

Ray Wise

#2. I didn't study acting.

Ray Walston

#3. I don't see all the movies that come out.

Ray Walston

#4. When you're speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.

Cheryl Strayed

#5. I don't watch television.

Ray Walston

#6. If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh ... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody.

Ray Walston

#7. George Grant's writing is an invaluable asset to Americans in general, and to the pro-life Americans in particular. I am grateful for his leadership and courage to defend the sanctity of life, and to tell the truth at all costs.

Beverly LaHaye

#8. If it's not in New York, let's say it's in St. Louis, then they've got to find a place or get with someone who knows about the work ... they've got to find a place like that and do scenes, and then try to get in plays.

Ray Walston

#9. He leaned toward me, murmuring, "I think one-on-one sounds better, don't you?"
His teeth gently caught my earlobe. All my muscles turned to liquid. I dropped the stirring rod and grabbed the edge of the table so I wouldn't collapse.

Andrea Cremer

#10. More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.

Denis Thatcher

#11. most dangerous thing in the world is to try and leap a chasm in two jumps,'" Paul quoted with dignified seriousness.

Glenn Michaels

#12. I love going on location, and the location was nice.

Ray Walston

#13. But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

Ray Walston

#14. The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

Townsend Harris

#15. I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

Ray Walston

#16. What do you need me for? Salander's greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings. And all of a sudden all her carefully constructed self-confidence seemed to crumble.

Stieg Larsson

#17. I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

Ray Walston

#18. I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.

Ray Walston

#19. A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#20. Talent will come out.

Ray Walston

#21. Socialism is in no way a curate's egg

Margaret Thatcher

#22. I've often wondered, when they've done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I've seen it, how they did that gun thing. I've watched it on stage, but I don't remember it.

Ray Walston

#23. Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

Layne Staley

#24. This is what loss was, what death was: an escape into the luminous wave-forms, into the ineffable speed of the light-years and the parsecs, the eternally receding distances of the cosmos.

Salman Rushdie

#25. I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#26. I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.

Ray Walston

#27. Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,
positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.

Mark Victor Hansen

#28. The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books.

Maurice Francis Egan

#29. I have worked with some very great directors.

Ray Walston

#30. You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.

Ray Walston