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.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • World
  • Art
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Age

• I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • Me
  • Couple

• 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.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Question

• 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.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• 'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Like
  • Where
  • Got

• 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.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bored
  • Take
  • Seriously

• I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• 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.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Death
  • Come
  • Grandfather

• The whole Baja California peninsula is an energetic place, and it's incredibly alive.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Place
  • California
  • Alive

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.

  

  Iain Banks

• 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.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Work
  • She

• I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

  

  Christopher Eccleston

• An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

  

  Patti Smith
  • May

• You could protect a religious minority against gays and lesbians. Or you could protect gays and lesbians against a religious minority. And then, it seems to me something political is happening. Because we're not really looking at the kind of speech that is injurious.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Religious
  • Speech
  • Gays

• Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Rain
  • Cry
  • I Consider

• The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Sacrifice

• Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

  

  William H. Wharton
  • Nature
  • Able
  • Land

• He taught me a lot about perseverance. Like, put that smile on and see where it takes you.

  

  Ray Wilson Genesis
  • Taught
  • Perseverance