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Ray Wise Quotes

I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: August 20, 1947

Topics

Great Devils Big Big Fan Fan Movie

When something happens, I always check myself and know it's going to go away. So be prepared for it. This is a tough business for actors who are sensitive. If you try to hold on to things, you'll go crazy.

Jessica Chastain

Business Myself Crazy Tough You Go

I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only elective, so this is their one shot. They'll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.

Poetry American Want Teach High

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education Time Dare Important Here

I've known Greg Berlanti from way back. I've done two shows with him, and both times, he was like, 'I've got something good for you,' and they did not disappoint.

Good You Back Done Way Him

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

Fear Technology Fashion Need Real

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

Feel Trying You Movies Tell Preach

A lot of 'Blackheart' was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But that melancholy has a hopefulness - in every Poe story, there is always a moral at the end.

Me Influence Story End Dark Moral

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

Work Relationship Justice Law Moving

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

Government Environmental Think Top

My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master's thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn't find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn't read Faulkner.

Father Generation American Look Find

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

Alicia Silverstone

Life Tree School Old Company Years

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

Time Fighting London Balls Irish

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