Ray Stevenson (George Raymond Stevenson) Quotes

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Life
  • Information
  • Fast

• It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Mankind
  • Lead
  • Microsoft

• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Black
  • Comedy

• The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Path
  • Broken
  • Friendships

• I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Different
  • Friends

• I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Always
  • Situation
  • Made

• I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Successful
  • Writer
  • Rather

• MIRRORMENTBirds are flowers flyingand flowers perched birds.

  

  A. R. Ammons

• Heart of my heart, we cannot die! Love triumphant in flower and tree, Every life that laughs at the sky Tells us nothing can cease to be: One, we are one with the song to-day, One with the clover that scents the world, One with the Unknown, far away, One with the stars, when earth grows old.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Painting

• If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Time
  • Long

• I have written symphonic poems and chamber music. It is my way of personal expression.

  

  Carmine Coppola
  • Music

• It's not the same without Jerry. It never will be.

  

  Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead

• I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

  

  Dinah Sheridan
  • Age

• What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Alone
  • Pain
  • Humans

• When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.

  

  Chester Brown
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Teenager

• Probably I'm more of a fan of the literary references than the pop-culture references. But I do go to the pop-culture well quite frequently because people, I think, are sort of inherently ready to laugh at that. It's a free laugh almost. Usually, everybody gets it.

  

  Adam Reed
  • Laugh
  • fan of literary references

• Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.

  

  Banks
  • You
  • Enough
  • Brave

• Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time,' especially 'Time Regained,' made me think differently about what the novel is and can do. Then I forgot about it, then reread it and remembered again.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Search

• Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • Lost
  • Enough
  • Gigs