Ray Walston Quotes

• But I would like to think that it’s the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

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  Tags in Director, Screen

• I don’t see all the movies that come out.

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  Topics in Movies

• I have worked with some very great directors.

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• I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.

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  Tags in Recreation, Affect, Actual

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  I didn’t study acting.

   

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  Tags in Study, Acting

• I love going on location, and the location was nice.

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  Tags in Location

• I don’t watch television.

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• I’ve often wondered, when they’ve done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I’ve seen it, how they did that gun thing. I’ve watched it on stage, but I don’t remember it.

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  Tags in Wondered, Stage, Remember

• I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

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  Tags in Career, Trying, Leaving

• I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Kid, Plays

• I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.

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  Tags in Conscious, Actor

• If it’s not in New York, let’s say it’s in St. Louis, then they’ve got to find a place or get with someone who knows about the work… they’ve got to find a place like that and do scenes, and then try to get in plays.

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  Tags in Place, Find, Scenes

• If they’re working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let’s say, uh… only twenty people, or something like that, that’s still, when they work and do a scene, that’s still working in front of somebody.

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  Tags in People, Scene, Workshop

• You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they’d been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head.

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  Tags in People, Matter, Knocked

• Talent will come out.

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  Tags in Talent

Ray Walston (15)

Birth:	2nd November, 1914
Death:	1st January, 2001
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Ray Walston was an American stage, television and film actor best known as the title character on the 1960s situation comedy My Favorite Martian. In addition, he is also remembered for his roles as Luther Billis in South Pacific, Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees, J.J. Singleton in The Sting, high school teacher Mr. Hand in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences.

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