Ray Winstone Quotes

As a sex symbol, I don't know what is appealing to women. I think it's the way you treat women that makes you sexy if you like.

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• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Change

• I like the language in Proust but not the context.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Language
  • Context

• Being in love is the best thing in my life.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Love
  • Best

• Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Christian
  • India
  • Heritage

• I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • People
  • Help
  • Dying

• I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes - the stories in my head have always been so much more entertaining. Only books could pull me out of my own imagination, and then it was only to plunge me into someone else's.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Imagination

• Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

• I don't perform. Seals perform.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths

• I love writing.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Writing

• The opening of 'There Will Be Blood' with that score and then deafening silence was memorable.

  

  Jenny Scheinman
  • Silence

• The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

  

  Joe Bob Briggs
  • Up
  • Grandmother

• I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.

  

  Bryan Fuller
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Winning

• We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

  

  Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Time
  • Men
  • Emotional

• If you're in Hollywood, with no track record, it's pretty odds-on that you can get swamped and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all; particularly with the intense commercial push that you feel there.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Pretty

• The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

  

  Lord Kelvin
  • Words

• I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

  

  Derek Luke

• You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Friends
  • Help

• Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Rock

• To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Order

• It's not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. And that, I think, might be one of the additional superpowers that, quite frankly, women who don't ask for raises have. Because that's good karma. It'll come back. Because somebody's going to know: 'That's the kind of person that I want to trust. That's the kind of person that I want to really give more responsibility to.'

  

  Satya Nadella
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Kind

• I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.

  

  Cheri Oteri
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• As a sex symbol, I don't know what is appealing to women. I think it's the way you treat women that makes you sexy if you like.

  

  Ray Winstone
  • Thinking
  • Symbols