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 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

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

Ray Walston

#4. Life is enough of everything.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#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. He read with young men who could find any leisure and interest for the study of a living tongue spoken all over the world, and he cultivated a taste for its stores of knowledge and fancy.

Charles Dickens

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

Ray Walston

#10. 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

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

Ray Walston

#12. I didn't study acting.

Ray Walston

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

Ray Walston

#14. Talent will come out.

Ray Walston

#15. 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

#16. Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

Martin Luther King Jr.

#17. I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

Neil Gaiman

#18. I can't say 'why me,' Brady. That's one of the big no-can-do's. Because if I do that now that bad stuff has happened to me, why didn't I say it about all the amazing stuff that happened to me before?

Mike Lupica

#19. 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

#20. I would rather live a short life out there and be free, than slowly die here and be safe.

Jared Southwick

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

Ray Walston

#22. 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