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

• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Fighting

• Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Space

• 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'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Food
  • Favorite
  • Take

• 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

• I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Things
  • Locally

• I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Why
  • Know
  • Best

• MIRRORMENTBirds are flowers flyingand flowers perched birds.

  

  A. R. Ammons

• All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

  

  Danny Thomas
  • Life
  • Why
  • Success

• I thought we had a really good defensive first half. We found momentum at the beginning of the second quarter and established a lead.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Good
  • Beginning
  • Lead

• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Up
  • King
  • Frozen

• Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Work
  • Joy

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

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • Lost
  • Enough
  • Gigs