Ray Stevenson (George Raymond Stevenson) Quotes

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

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• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Remember
  • Songs
  • Starting

• Mark Twain cannot be defined.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Mark
  • Mark Twain
  • Twain

• I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Never
  • Thought

• I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Real
  • Fast

• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Gender

• I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Looks
  • Ego

• Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Life
  • Family
  • Education

• Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Important
  • Wish

• I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Company
  • Doe

• Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Want
  • Can Do
  • Until

• In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.

  

  Yasser Arafat

• I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Long
  • Door
  • Figure

• I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Leaving
  • Honesty
  • Rhyme

• I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Things
  • Fool
  • Consequence

• I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Energy
  • Coffee

• 'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'

  

  Esther Rolle
  • Women
  • Play
  • Hollywood

• Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Directors

• A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Fighting
  • Idea
  • Actors

• As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

  

  Ray Stevenson
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