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For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, Oh, my god, the play is amazing!, I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

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Ray Stevenson
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: May 25
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
George Raymond Stevenson
George Raymond Ray Stevenson
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The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.
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When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.
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There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.
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I consider it an actor going to work with other actors. It's not a competitive sport, it's not to outact anybody else, sorta thing, you can be a bad actor but you don't outact anybody, you just bring your character as best as you can.
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As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that is touching the psyche of a certain age group, facing the real internal questions of people who are going through rites of passage into adulthood. It's earth-shaking stuff.
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As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
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Hence the genius of having Ken steer this ship as well. You have to invest these characters with a Shakespearian quality and not in a way that might disengage the audience but in a way that actually lets you play to an audience.
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Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.
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I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.
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I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.
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The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.
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I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.
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You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
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The weird thing is, in America, people were saying, You're not going to get recognized because all you're going to see is basically your forehead and eyes.
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