Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.
— Ray Stevenson
I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.
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.
Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.
Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.
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.
You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.
I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.
Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.
As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
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.
When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.
