Quotes by Ray Stevenson - Page 1

Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.
Ray Stevenson / Film Actor
Gym
Natural
Persons
Wells
Anyway
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I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.
Ray Stevenson / Film Actor
Action
Figures
My Own
Never Own My Own
Action Figure
Figure
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I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.
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Book
Comic
Comic Book
Fans
Presume
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Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.
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Absurd
Realizing
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When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.
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Center Of Gravity
Gravity
Jeans
Center
Wearing
Shift
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I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.
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Feels
Honest
Levels
Instinctive
Suppose
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Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.
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Enough
Gigs
Profile
Sometimes
Gig
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You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
Ray Stevenson / Film Actor
News
Newspapers
Real
Violence
Western
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The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.
Ray Stevenson / Film Actor
Epic Stories
Language
Way
Shakespeare
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If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.
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Littles
Pique
Scare
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As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
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Actors
Directors
Working With Others
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Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
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Humor
Emotional
Important
Natural
Release
Important Thing
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When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.
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Different
Different Voices
Voice
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Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.
Ray Stevenson / Film Actor
Morning
Guy
Thinking
Bad
Bad Guy
Nobody
Right
Wakes
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There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.
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Direct
Playing Around
Stories
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I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.
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Example
Pirate
Thinking
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History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
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Journalist
Mean
Written
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[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.
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People
Pirate
Victim
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I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.
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Believe
Giving
Thinking
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It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.
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Careers
Successful
Years
Maintain
Tough Business
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For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.
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People
Play
Training
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The weird thing is, in America, people were saying, "You're not going to get recognized because all you're going to see is basically your forehead and eyes."
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America
Eye
People
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Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.
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Leader
Rocks
Stars
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The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.
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Advice
Pieces
Satellites
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The best piece of advice I've ever been given was, 'Be in the business you're in.' Don't just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business you're in.
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Advice
Just Be
Satellite
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I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.
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Age
Guy
People
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Working at night helps people focus in on this crazy little bubble you've created, wherever you are filming. It doesn't matter where the location is, the world doesn't exist outside this bubble. And everyone is trapped inside.
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Location
Trapped
Bubble
Filming
Helps
Wherever
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Hence the genius of having Ken steer this ship as well. You have to invest these characters with a Shakespearian quality and not in a way that might disengage the audience but in a way that actually lets you play to an audience.
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Quality
Character
Play
Ships
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I consider it an actor going to work with other actors. It's not a competitive sport, it's not to outact anybody else, sorta thing, you can be a bad actor but you don't outact anybody, you just bring your character as best as you can.
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Sports
Actors
Character
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They're {Marvel] the ones who have went out and bought the comic book whenever it came out. They're the real investors. They serve them. Having a chance to be part of that Marvel Universe is just - well, it is what it is. It's just fantastic.
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Chance
Book
Real
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It's all about the integrity of their characters. They [Marvel] care so much about the loyalty and integrity of each and every character and all of their stories. They trust and love their readership. They're the ones who have invested in these stories.
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Loyalty
Character
Integrity
Stories
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I like bringing little subtle complexities to a character. It's all about the subtext. No one can really describe or fully know another human being, even if they get a hook on them. It's more about instinctively knowing whether you like somebody or not.
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Character
Hook
Knowing
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I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.
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Loyalty
Dog
Innocence
Saint
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It really reminds me of the great movies of the 30's and 40's with huge sets and voluminous fireplaces you could walk around in. Glazed floors. I was expecting a Busby Berkley dance number. Big fanfare and all the girls coming out. I'd have joined in. It's got that scale, you know?
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Girl
Coming Out
Expecting
Numbers
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The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charles Vane and Blackbeard. How much of that is really documented history? It carries a flavor with it, but take all this with a pinch of salt.
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Flavor
Names
Pirate
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As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that is touching the psyche of a certain age group, facing the real internal questions of people who are going through rites of passage into adulthood. It's earth-shaking stuff.
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People
Real
Touching
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When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.
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Character
Jeans
Play
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The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well. Shakespeare doesn't require you to have a doctorate in his language or whatever to understand him. It just has to be directed and played right. It's all about scale and presence and getting these huge, epic stories across.
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Epic
Stories
Way
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I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I may not have gotten a role, but for me, acting is not a competition. I've just kept my head down and kept working, and had the great pleasure of working with some amazing people and playing some extraordinary and extreme characters.
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People
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It does if you put yourself out there being a pirate. It's like if you have an army and your army sit around and not doing anything and living the lives of decadence and they're faced with a battle, and you slide. Do they deserve the right to call themselves an army? Do these pirates who are basically languishing deserve the right to call themselves pirates? They're victims of their own success.
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Army
Battle
Pirate
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Really Edward Teach, Blackbeard, was actually tall, so he was literally larger than life and so he knew that and actually the more you read about him, you realize that he actually respected and knew about the theatricality and he'd rather take a ship by threatening and having the power of his personality and the threat of the oncoming danger to sway the ship to just acquiesce and just give up their cargo and so none of his crew got hurt and they would just take their bounty and he wouldn't have to kill anybody, but of course he earned that reputation, so he was no saint.
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Giving Up
Hurt
Personality
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