Love Quote by Ray Walston

There is a particular kind of Hollywood candor that only arrives after you have nothing left to prove, and Ray Walston’s line lands right in that lane: a fondness for the romance of the job, immediately deflated into blunt practicality. “I love going on location” opens like the expected actorly reverie - travel, freshness, escape from soundstages and routine. Then comes the dry kicker: “and the location was nice.” Not transcendent, not transformative. Nice. The understatement is the point.

Walston spent decades toggling between prestige and paycheck, stage seriousness and screen oddity (most famously as the deadpan heart of My Favorite Martian). That career builds a worldview where “location” isn’t a metaphor; it’s logistics. You hear the veteran’s tacit awareness of what location shoots actually mean: long days, weather, waiting, hotel rooms, the churn of crew life. The sentence performs a tiny negotiation between promotional enthusiasm and lived experience. He gives the interviewer something usable - yes, he loved it - while quietly reclaiming control over the narrative by refusing to oversell.

The subtext is craft over glamour. Walston isn’t auditioning for myth. He’s marking a boundary between the public fantasy of acting and the workman’s reality of it, with a shrug disguised as praise. It’s also a neat character sketch: an actor whose charm comes from restraint, who knows “nice” can be both compliment and gentle joke, and who trusts the audience to catch the wink without being told it’s there.