Ray Wise Net Worth

Ray Wise's Quotes

• What goes through my mind when I see myself blowing some guy's brains out on screen? It looks a lot worse than it did when I was doing it. It's all so technical, really, when we're shotgun-blasting apart Peter Weller. It's kind of gruesome when you're doing it, but it looks worse on screen. It's not so bad, really. A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine. -- on RoboCop (1987)
• I'm so glad I played Leland Palmer, I can't even tell you. Reading the pilot episode and seeing what Leland went through, I thought, "This could be pretty one-dimensional. It was a father grieving for his murdered daughter. But boy, was I wrong. I had no idea the gamut Leland would run during the course of that show. They just wrote a beautiful character, and I'm fortunate to have played it. -- on Twin Peaks (1990)
• I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always been close to my heart -- in fact, I have a first edition of Bram Stoker's book. I read it over and over again as a young kid. I was a fan of the Lugosi film, and I've been a fan really of all the Dracula films made ever since. Christopher Lee's is a particular favorite of mine, and I like Coppola's film with 'Gary Oldman'. But I've never felt like the definitive Dracula film has been made. I'd like to take a shot at that some time in the near future.
• My memories are of 95-degree temperatures and 98-percent humidity, and these big mosquitoes, and black flies and alligators. My fondest memories are of Adrienne Barbeau and her cavorting around the swamp. We had a great time down there in Charleston, South Carolina, Wes Craven and the whole bunch of us. We were like kids, playing these great comic-book characters. -- on Swamp Thing (1982)
• They [the producers] pretty much laid out this character out for me in the writing, how they wanted him to have a sense of humor, that kind of twinkle in his eye, and a little bit of charm. I wasn't the standard scary devil, and that really appealed to me. I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson. I admired a lot of their devils, and I wanted mine to be somewhat different. It's kind of a combination between a used-car salesman and a game-show host. -- on playing The Devil in Reaper (2007)

Interesting Facts about Ray Wise

1. With TV commercials producer Kass McClaskey, he has a son Gannon McClaskey Wise (born 1985) and a daughter Kyna Wise (born 1987).
2. Volunteered his time to make Pennyweight (1999), a short film shot in Portland, Maine. [1999]
3. Was in two movies that opened in the U.S. on the same weekend - The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003) and Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) (August 29, 2003 - Labor Day Weekend).
4. Has portrayed both the President of the United States in the game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (2000), and the Vice-President of the United States in the show 24 (2001).
5. Lives in Glendale, California.
6. Brother-in-law of music editor Tass Filipos.
7. Attended the 2011 Twin Peaks Festival. [August 2011]
8. Attended the 2010 Fall Hollywood Show in Burbank, California, which held a Twin Peaks (1990) reunion. [October 2010]
9. Profiled in "Character Kings: Hollywood's Familiar Faces Discuss the Art & Business of Acting" by Scott Voisin. [2009]
10. Bears a resemblance to actor John Noble. Ironically, they also share the same birth date, August 20, though Ray is one year older.
11. Was considered for the role of Freddy Kruger in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
12. No relation to director Robert Wise, despite a popular misconception.