Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Rhys Ifans
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Welsh actor Rhys Ifans.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician.
I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.
The majority of comic book villains are pure evil, but Curt Connors is an exception. Curt Connors is a good man who initially wants to save the world, but he gets hungry and greedy and reckless, and he pays the price for that.
It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.
My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.
I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.
In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.
I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.
We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.
I'm always flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the audience a film reaches.
I don't do celebrity.
Howard Marks is a great friend and a great Welshman.
Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed.
I'm a sporadic reader. I have moments when I can't stop... then I kind of forget that I can read. But then I go, 'Oh God, yeah, books!'
It's a great life being an actor, and I wouldn't change it for anything.
If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.
I am not gadgety at all. It's not that I'm appalled by technology, but I've taken my time acquiring any of it.
I never think career.
I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself more in roles emotionally.
The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.
I've worked with Hollywood stars, but the reason most of the Hollywood stars I've worked with are Hollywood stars is that they're excellent actors, so I've been very lucky.
Every species has its pub.
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.
The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.
My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?
A pub can be a magical place.
I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but I am convinced that the Stratfordian William Shakespeare was not. My feeling is that it was an amalgamation of many writers, in the same way that most films are a collaborative endeavor.
Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.
Each generation needs a 'Spider-Man' to mirror their angst.
I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.
If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.
It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.
I'm a passionate Welshman. I have a culinary relationship with language: I taste what I say because I have two languages, and each informs the other.
There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and then suddenly it stops. Or there's when you're in a band: it is all-consuming, so then you have the dream of that, and then the dream's taken away from you even before it happens.
Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis.
Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable.
When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.
I'm a factory-floor actor: I learn the lines, I get there on time.
Acting is a tough, difficult job with long unsociable hours, although it can be a brilliant job, too. I don't want to complain too much, as nurses, farmers and teachers are out working long hours.
I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.
I'm a real magpie when it comes to music; it's all random, and there's no pattern to what I like.
When I was young, I was in a hurry to live. And now I'm just not in a hurry.
For me, 'Come and See' is, by a million miles, the best film about war that has ever been made. I would highly recommend, encourage and enforce anyone to watch it.
I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
If you've got a camera, go to a war zone and tell a story.
I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.
I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.
When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.
Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a minute.
Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.
It's every boy's dream to play Captain Hook.
People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.
I never thought I would be in a film.
Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice.
The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.
If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.
I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.
Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk.
In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.
I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot.
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