Top 37 Quotes & Sayings by Jonathan Pryce

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Sir Jonathan Pryce is a Welsh actor who is known for his performances on stage and in film and television. He has received numerous awards, including two Tony Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. In 2021 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he began his career as a stage actor in the early 1970s. His work in theatre includes an Olivier Award-winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's Hamlet in 1980 and as The Engineer in the stage musical Miss Saigon in 1990. On the Broadway stage he earned Tony Awards—the first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his Broadway debut role in Comedians (1977), the second for Best Actor in a Musical for the Broadway transfer of the musical Miss Saigon (1991).

Welsh - Actor | Born: June 1, 1947

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I can tell stories to other actors about the level of aggression on stage in the '70s between actors - it was unbelievable.

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One time, I had to do Edgar in 'King Lear' and Owl in 'Winnie the Pooh' on the same day.

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People sometimes ask me why I did this or that project. I say, 'Well, they asked me.'

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I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.

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What's great about being an actor is you meet people and form a relationship very quickly.

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I cry very easily.

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When you play a character, you commit yourself to their beliefs.

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I made a sofa that is constantly being updated the more people sit on it, or sit through it, or don't sit on it because it's so uncomfortable.

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Actors, when they're older, still get a chance to let off steam or something and work things off on stage.

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I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

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As a child, play, drawing, and painting were important to me - they still are.

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I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

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The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

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It was very amusing to do 'GI Joe: Retaliation' scenes with Bruce Willis, who spends months rewriting his dialogue and then turns up and doesn't say it. Part of the time, he doesn't say anything, but mumbles and mutters.

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I'd rather be Welsh than English, that's for sure.

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Hamlet' is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he's just one part of the story.

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I try to see some good in everyone.

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I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

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I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.

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When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

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I treasure my friends but not my possessions.

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I'm not a star, I'm an actor - there's a difference!

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When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater.

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You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.

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I've never had therapy. Maybe the work is the therapy.

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When you sing on stage, the songs are part of the narrative, but in 'Unconditional Love,' it was just singing for singing's sake. It was playing at being pop star. As a young boy growing up in North Wales, that was my fantasy.

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'Macbeth' sags in act four - the England scene with Malcolm and Macduff just doesn't work theatrically. But with 'Hamlet,' although the play is so long, Shakespeare manages to sustain the arc.

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I remember watching 'Fargo.' I thought that was cruel. 'GoodFellas,' lots of Scorsese stuff, I think is unnecessarily violent and almost a celebration of violence. I don't see 'Game of Thrones' as being a celebratory violence.

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I have just enough public appreciation to make me happy.

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It took a while to decide I wanted to do Hamlet. It wasn't that I was daunted - I'd been acting professionally since my mid-20s and had some pretty big Shakespearean roles under my belt by that stage, at 32: Petruchio in 'The Taming of the Shrew,' Edgar in 'King Lear,' Antony, Richard III. But when it came to Hamlet, I hesitated.

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Sometimes I just want to laugh.

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When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

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Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.

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It was easy for me to play someone with a massive ego. It's actually really fun to have the freedom to be that person.

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Pryce, a veteran of Brazil and Baron Munchausen and a longtime Gilliam friend, bristles at the word chaos when applied to the Brothers Grimm set.] Terry knows what he wants, ... He's very demanding, but in a positive and generous way. And if you're up to it, it's very exciting. If you're not, you fall by the wayside.

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The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why.

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Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.

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