Ray Wise Quotes
A lot of shows where I'm playing a senator or a congressman or a doctor or a high-priced attorney, I do a number on myself. "I am a powerful attorney, or a doctor." It's a little convincing job I do on myself first to know I can walk out on the set and know that I can be this guy.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.
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Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.
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True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
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I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.
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Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now.
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You have got to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at that time. No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.
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One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.
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'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
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In my art work, hand painting would take much too long and anyway that's not the age we're living in.
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I know that many will call this useless work.
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I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
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I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.
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I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.
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If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty
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As much as I love acting, I just want to be a healthy person.
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I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.
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A lot of shows where I'm playing a senator or a congressman or a doctor or a high-priced attorney, I do a number on myself. "I am a powerful attorney, or a doctor." It's a little convincing job I do on myself first to know I can walk out on the set and know that I can be this guy.
