Ray Stevenson Quotes
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When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.
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When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.
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I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.
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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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You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
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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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It does if you put yourself out there being a pirate. It's like if you have an army and your army sit around and not doing anything and living the lives of decadence and they're faced with a battle, and you slide. Do they deserve the right to call themselves an army? Do these pirates who are basically languishing deserve the right to call themselves pirates? They're victims of their own success.
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The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.
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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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Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.
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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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Pirates are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.
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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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History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
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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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Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.
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Really Edward Teach, Blackbeard, was actually tall, so he was literally larger than life and so he knew that and actually the more you read about him, you realize that he actually respected and knew about the theatricality and he'd rather take a ship by threatening and having the power of his personality and the threat of the oncoming danger to sway the ship to just acquiesce and just give up their cargo and so none of his crew got hurt and they would just take their bounty and he wouldn't have to kill anybody, but of course he earned that reputation, so he was no saint.
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As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
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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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The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.
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Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.
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Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.
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I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.
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Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.