Ray Stevenson Quotes

When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

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.

There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.

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."

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.

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.

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.

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.

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.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.

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.

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

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.

Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.