Quotes by Ray Winstone

Ray Winstone

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that’s 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.

Drama

Play

Sex

Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don’t speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.

Government

Hate

People

As a man, there’s a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day’s work.

Going Out

Men

Should

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.

Sexy

Thinking

Way

At acting school people didn’t speak like me. It was all received pronunciation – ‘ow now brown cow.’

Acting

People

School

But then when you go through the process of making the film and you sit in the cinema two years later and your jaw hits the floor, it’s quite sad in a way because you’re looking at yourself – facially anyway – and see the way you looked when you were 20.

Cinema

Two

Years

By being with my kids. I’m like a lion who hunts and comes home to be looked after and sleep. I think girls tend to be drawn towards their dad. I’d love to have a son, but I have three kids who are great – three geezer birds and that’s all I need to worry about.

Dad

Girl

Sleep

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.

People

Squares

Summer

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.

Hard Work

Jobs

Thinking

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.

Cowboy

Men

Skulls

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Actors

Age

Arses

Attractive

Australia

Beautiful

Believe

Boys

Cinema

Costumes

Cowboy

Dad

Darkness

Differences

Directors

Doe

Drama

Dream

Eye

Fabulous

Faces

Facts

Fighting

Film

Fine

Games

Girl

Going Out

Government

Great Experiences

Gun

Hard Work

Hate

If I Could

Ifs

Indiana

Italian

Jobs

Justice

Kids

Laughing

Lenses

Location

Long

Lovely

Mean

Men

Middle Of Nowhere

Might

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Quotes by Ray Winstone

Ray Winstone

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that’s 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.

Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don’t speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.

As a man, there’s a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day’s work.

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.

At acting school people didn’t speak like me. It was all received pronunciation – ‘ow now brown cow.’

But then when you go through the process of making the film and you sit in the cinema two years later and your jaw hits the floor, it’s quite sad in a way because you’re looking at yourself – facially anyway – and see the way you looked when you were 20.

By being with my kids. I’m like a lion who hunts and comes home to be looked after and sleep. I think girls tend to be drawn towards their dad. I’d love to have a son, but I have three kids who are great – three geezer birds and that’s all I need to worry about.

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.

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.

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.

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