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Ray Winstone is a British film actor, born on February 19, 1957 in London. He is renowned for his exceptional performances in crime and noir films. Winstone began his acting career in the 1980s, initially appearing in television roles. His film debut was in 'The Big Sleep' in 1980.

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“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”

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Sex Treats Sexy Symbols Sex Symbol

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“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.”

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“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.”

World Doe Enough Kids Bits Century Lucky Mouths 21st Century

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“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.”

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“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.”

Film Enjoy Pleasure Absolutes Great Experiences

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“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.”

World Ends Play Sex Poor Violence Dying Drama Killing Alas Juliet Shakespeare Play

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“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.”

Drama Scripts Queens

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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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“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.”

Mean Taught Cooks Italian Mates Sauce Liver Stew

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“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.”

Wells Ends Eye Lasts Tears Standing Favourite Indiana Crusades Tears In Your Eyes

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

Men Feels Should Stills Going Out

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“At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'”

People School Speak Acting Like Me Brown Cows Pronunciation

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“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.”

Bits Loses Weight Handle Location Occasional Catering

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“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.”

Trying Dream Jobs Fighting Imagination Acting Imagine Pure Absolutes Dragons Favourite Scorsese

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“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.”

Believe Wanted Speak Walks Havens Politician Mets Mouths Coming Out

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“I love to be the lead, but you can't always be the lead.”

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“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.”

Shows Film Darkness Havens Changed Originals Series Edges Versions Fantastic Fabulous

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“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?”

Knows Facts Hate Pay Millions Taxes I Hate Pounds Hospitals Congestion

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“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.”

Ifs Want Long Doe Arses

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“I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.”

Thinking Actors

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“You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.”

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“There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.”

Silence Middle Attractive Middle Of Nowhere

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“I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine.”

Ifs Fine Who You Are If I Could

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“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.”

Thinking Needs Home Kids Girl Three Sleep Worry Son Dad Bird Coming Home Lions Hunts

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“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.”

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“I had a very real fear of spiders until one bit me. I got bitten by a redback spider in Australia and I've never been frightened of them since. Maybe I've turned into Spider-man.”

Men Real Bits Australia Frightened Spiders Spider Man

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“When somebody meets me in the street, they say, 'Hello, how you doing?' And I say the same back. It's just two minutes of your time and it's alright. I don't like people taking liberties when I'm with my family, but mostly people are really polite and that's lovely.”

People Two Liberty Streets Minutes My Family Lovely Polite Hello Alright

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“I'm not the sort of bloke who spends a long time in the bathroom. I've never used a face cream in my life and I don't like it when I go on TV and they offer me make-up. I tell 'em, 'No thanks.'”

Long Faces Used Tvs Goes On Offers Long Time Thanks Ems Cream Bathroom Blokes

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“Sometimes when you're making a film and something happens during a scene that you've just thought of, it can be missed if the wrong lens is on or if you're shooting in the wrong direction but this [performance capture] doesn't miss a thing. So, you might do something that's genius - very rarely, admittedly - but it doesn't miss it.”

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“Sometimes you also work with people who don't explain or express to you what they're actually looking for from the shot but you haven't got that problem with this because whatever you're going to do, whether it's good or bad, will get picked up. So, in that way I guess it's pure cinema.”

People Way Sometimes Problem Havens Pure Shots Cinema

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“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.”

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“The other thing is that when people mention computers - and I'm pretty much the same - they find it hard to comprehend that there's a performance there. They look at it as something that's just been made by a computer but in a way the difference is that when you make a normal film - and I'm simplifying it here - you put on the make-up and you put the scenery in before you start shooting, but with this you still perform in the same way but then you put the make-up on after, along with the costumes and scenery.”

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“I think the difference is that Angelina didn't need any CGI enhancement and I did! You can't really think about some things too much, you just get on with it and do it. It's about the way you move and the way you sound.”

Thinking Way Needs Moving Sound Differences Too Much Enhancement Cgi

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“It's not hard to be sexy when you're standing in front of Angelina Jolie or Robin Wright Penn. They're two of the most beautiful women in the world and two of the finest actresses. I think that if you're with people who are good in your profession they become sexy because they're good at what they do. I enjoyed being 6ft 6ins, having an eight pack and a long todger, you know? If I fold mine in half it's the same length!”

“You've always got to have an imagination in the game we're in but it explodes on this. You get to try the costumes on before you start and feel the weight of them, which is great. But then you're opposite some of the greatest actors in the world and away you go. You find your imagination takes over without you really even thinking about it.”

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“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.”

Actors Term Wonderful Special Directors Great Actors Gary Scorsese

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“The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.”

World Sex Violence Drama Alas

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About the Author

Born: February 19, 1957
Known for: Film actor
Quotes: 40

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