Ray Winstone famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.
-- Ray Winstone

#Thinking #Actors
As a sex symbol, I don't know what is appealing to women. I think it's the way you treat women that makes you sexy if you like.
-- Ray Winstone

#Sexy #Thinking #Way
We sometimes get lost in a bubble... when you get to a certain age you're always thinking about the old days and how it wasn't like that then. Well, yeah, that's great and it's very nostalgic and all that, but actually the world has moved on.
-- Ray Winstone

#Thinking #Age #Moved On
I'm lucky enough to have a kid with me who is actually really intellectually up with what's going on in the world and actually puts his money where his mouth is and goes and does something about it; he goes and talks about it. It livens you up a bit and it brings you into the 21st Century.
-- Ray Winstone

#Kids #Lucky #World
Playing with guns you revert to a little boy sometimes. But they're not great things to play with, so it's just making them look real. When it comes to shooting guns or using any prop, you've got to make it look like you know what you're doing with them. It's called acting.
-- Ray Winstone

#Real #Gun #Boys
I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.
-- Ray Winstone

#Film #Pleasure #Enjoy
If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.
-- Ray Winstone

#Long #Arses #Want
I know I've got to pay some tax, but I hate the fact that they collect millions of pounds a day from the congestion charge and I don't see anything or anyone benefitting from it. Where are the new hospitals?
-- Ray Winstone

#Hate #Pay #Facts
The original 'Edge of Darkness' was fantastic, a fabulous series. It was of its time, but this film version shows that times really haven't changed.
-- Ray Winstone

#Darkness #Fabulous #Film
I love to be the lead, but you can't always be the lead.
-- Ray Winstone
I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.
-- Ray Winstone

#Believe #Mouths #Speak
Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was 'Beowulf' because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you're fighting a dragon or whatever.
-- Ray Winstone

#Dream #Jobs #Fighting
I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit when I'm not working, but I love my food and the occasional snifter.
-- Ray Winstone

#Location #Weight #Occasional
At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'
-- Ray Winstone

#School #People #Acting
As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.
-- Ray Winstone

#Men #Going Out #Should
Well, for me, my favourite 'Indiana Jones' is 'The Last Crusade,' because you get tears in your eyes when you see the old guard standing at the end, so that's my favourite one.
-- Ray Winstone

#Eye #Tears #Indiana
I'm away so much I've had to learn to cook, and I find it relaxing after filming. I make stews and liver and bacon, and an Italian mate taught me how to make a mean puttanesca sauce.
-- Ray Winstone

#Mean #Italian #Sauce
For me, 'The Crystal Skull' was something I'd never done before, and I loved every minute of it. Working with Harrison Ford as well - he's a cowboy from Montana, the most unassuming man you'll ever work with, fabulous guy, and I loved it.
-- Ray Winstone

#Men #Cowboy #Skulls
Every job I take, within minutes Im thinking, I cant do this. I think its what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. Its what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.
-- Ray Winstone

#Jobs #Hard Work #Thinking
Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of Scum. All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.
-- Ray Winstone

#Summer #Squares #Mad
I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.
-- Ray Winstone

#Queens #Drama #Scripts
All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, thats about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
-- Ray Winstone

#Sex #Drama #Play
I went to the audition for a laugh and got the part for the way I walked down the corridor. There's no justice is there? [on getting a role from an audition
-- Ray Winstone

#Laughing #Justice #Way
The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
-- Ray Winstone

#Sex #Drama #Violence
In terms of directors, great actors make directors - Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim Roth, too. You work with Scorsese and Spielberg and they were wonderful directors, but for me, working with actor/directors is special.
-- Ray Winstone

#Special #Directors #Actors

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