D.E. Stevenson Quotes

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

Everything contains its antithesis.

I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture

What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.

Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.

I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

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.

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

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.

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."

There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.