Ray Wilson Quotes
He taught me a lot about perseverance. Like, put that smile on and see where it takes you.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
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The whole Baja California peninsula is an energetic place, and it's incredibly alive.
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I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.
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There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
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TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.
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I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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I am not one to adhere to silly clothing rules. I love mixing metals, wearing a brown bag with black shoes, whatever.
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I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.
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Whether you want to be the top violinist or a CEO, strangely enough, hard work and perseverance can overcome a lot of things.
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He taught me a lot about perseverance. Like, put that smile on and see where it takes you.
