Ray Winstone Quotes

You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.

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• If you're famous, you're not free.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Free
  • You
  • Famous

• The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Together
  • Drama
  • Famous

• In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Famous
  • Fame
  • Journalism

• I got the famous Oprah hug!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Famous
  • Got
  • Hug

• Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Future
  • Famous

• I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Serious
  • Stupid
  • Famous

• I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Goal
  • Famous
  • Name

• There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Person
  • Famous
  • Parent

• My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Famous
  • Kitchen
  • Museum

• I also was afraid I was a very bad actress, because I'd become famous very fast and was making money for people. When you're making money, they're never going to tell you whether you're good or bad. They don't care. I knew that if I had any talent, this would kill it. I never wanted to be a famous bad actress!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called 'Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You'.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Book
  • Interesting
  • Famous

• In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • World
  • Future
  • Famous

• In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

  

  Luciano Pavarotti
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• Nobody's going to say hello to me in the street, really, because there'll be someone a bit more famous coming along the street in a minute. That typifies London, really.

  

  Ken Stott
  • Famous

• I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

  

  Bill Murray
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.

  

  Sia LSD
  • People
  • Famous

• I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.

  

  Alberto Korda
  • Famous

• Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • School
  • Famous

• The thing about radio is that it's got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don't have to give it your full attention - you can still do something else that the same time, whereas TV is all-enveloping: you have to sit there and pay attention to it, and give yourself over to it. You have to surrender to it, but you don't with radio.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Time
  • Attention

• Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.

  

  Dean Dillon
  • Good
  • Constantly
  • Demanded

• I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Love
  • House

• The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.

  

  Ray Winstone
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