Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Ruth Jones
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Welsh actress Ruth Jones.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
I did get a really weird fan letter from a bloke in prison. I think it was when I was doing 'Fat Friends.' He said he'd be happy to do an exercise routine for me, to go through a fitness regime for me. I didn't take him up on the offer... dunno why?!
I am nervous about how my debut novel will be received, because there's always that feeling that somebody might say something negative. I say I won't read the reviews, but I probably will. But just because somebody says something negative, I don't have to believe it.
I knew I wanted to write about female friendship. I've got a few friends I've known since we were teenagers, who have spanned the decades, and I do find that a fascinating thing, that friendship can last that length of time.
With TV-writing, you write scenes and those scenes pretty much stay as they are when you come to filming them. Sometimes you might change things on the day because of the location or the actors' availability issues.
Since I turned 40, I've become less self-doubting, but it still happens.
I adore all the 'Planet of the Apes' films.
It's just wonderful to be able to write about what my characters are thinking.
I get so upset about news stories and the cruelty in the world. I can't process it. And I just think there's enough of it out there. It doesn't need me to add to it. Nobody needs Ruth Jones's take on nasty.
I've obviously witnessed the world of TV production, and I'm just a bit fascinated by people being a bit awful.
You have a different, much more intimate relationship with the characters in a novel than when writing a screenplay. You're able to get inside their heads in a different way. You can understand their motivations more.
When I was five, my uncle bought us a tape recorder and my dad tried to record us kids talking and singing, stuff like that. There's really quite a lot of me in a really Welsh accent going, 'Can I tell a joke? Can I sing a song?' - really annoying and brattish.
Certainly in 'Stella' there weren't really any baddies. And if there were, they were quite ineffectual baddies. And the same is true of 'Gavin & Stacey.' I like people to be redeemed.
None of us are going to get younger, there's no point in trying to chase that dream because it won't happen.
I literally found myself weeping when I was reading 'After You.'
I can understand why people want to know who 'the real Ruth Jones' is. That's human nature. But do you ever get that from an interview?
In some ways, I was confident as a teenager - I didn't mind standing on stage in front of loads of people - but innately, I didn't believe in myself. I would always put myself down before anyone else could.
I have facials and I love spas, but that's more about the pampering.
Marks & Spencer's in Cardiff is a really good place to get recognised.
I thought I would be married with four children when I was 24 because that's what my mother did. But it didn't turn out like that. There's no reason why. It just didn't happen.
I love fallible characters.
Whenever someone asks for my autograph, I still think, 'Do you really want it?'
I ran 10k once. I've got a medal.
I think perhaps I'm a bit of an idealist.
The characters in 'Stella' wake up and they want to have a good day. They don't set out to make someone's life a misery.
I think community and connection with people around us - and feeling that we belong - is really valuable.
I've always been a bit of a drama queen. I was into make-believe and dressing up.
I've turned up to auditions and seen faces that I recognise and I think I know them. Then I realise I know them because they are on the telly.
I'm blessed by having very long-term, solid friendships, and they're such joyous things.
I wanted to write a book about female friendship, because it's a constant that goes right through to the end of our days. Over time, romantic love changes and often becomes something different, but friendship stays pretty much the same.
Self-loathing is a waste of time.
Writing a novel is solitary, but I don't mind that.
When I re-read my diaries, it's the self-doubt that seems to be prevalent.
Of course I always immediately apologise when I realise I'm in the wrong.
I have decided to stop dieting because it doesn't work for me and I am annoyed with myself for ever trying. I have decided to enjoy the body I have. I tell myself how lucky I am to have a body that functions so well.
Surely there's a difference between cocky and lively and entertaining.
You never do know what will happen to you.
I just go broad Welsh when I'm nervous.
Gavin and Stacey' really seems to have been taken into people's hearts and we're really thrilled about it.
I love talking about 'Stella.'
I got a part in the film 'Emma' in which Gwyneth was playing the lead. She was going out with Brad Pitt at the time. I asked her if, with a name like Gwyneth, she had any Welsh connections. She wasn't terribly friendly.
I do think the Welsh have a special enthusiasm for death. My father's always going to funerals of people he doesn't know very well.
I will never, ever turn down a foot massage.
I love living in Wales.
I loved character actresses like Julie Walters and Alison Steadman, films like 'Nuts in May' and 'Educating Rita.' And I never get tired of watching Larry David and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'
I think comedy drama is a tricky one. But it's like in real life: often really tense, dramatic situations can be punctuated with the mundane and banal, and that's what we try to capture in 'Stella.'
I love 'Gogglebox,' that show really makes me laugh.
I think people are naturally funny.
I used to think I could only run if I was a certain weight. It was a revelation when I accepted that thinking like that was daft. I told myself if I enjoyed it, just enjoy it!
Without 'Gavin & Stacey,' 'Stella' wouldn't exist.
I like really, properly detailed, described characters.
I like to observe people, and I find people pretty fascinating. So I think character is my strength.
I'd never judge anyone who did Botox, it's a personal thing. But I wouldn't do it.
I always love stories that do a big time leap where the past informs the present, where you find out what became of some characters years later.
I feel really lucky, I love doing my job.
I am never going to like sci-fi or horror.
I'm trying to learn to ask myself: 'Before you dive in are you sure you are right?' It's always safe to assume I'm wrong.
I love looking at old photographs. I don't know if it's something that gets more appealing as one gets older and you're trying to get a sense of your place in the world and the little area that your life has taken up.
I love multigenerational sagas.
Of course I've been in love and I married the man that I love. It was love at first voice because I spoke to him on the phone before I met him. I did fall in love with his voice.
I do my job because I love it. And a necessary part of the job is that you talk about the show you've done.
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