Ray Stevenson's Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.