Top 930 Quotes & Sayings by Welsh Authors - Page 15

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.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

Freedom is not a God-given right, we have to earn it.

My mother came to see me in a play when I was a student, and afterwards, I asked her what she thought. She said, 'Honest opinion? No.'

I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control.

It must have been horrible for my parents to see me go from public school to comprehensive to detention centre to borstal. I was busy ploughing my own furrow, but I must have been a terrible worry to them, and for that I am sorry.

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

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

I love Michael Keaton. I think he's awesome - he's such an awesome actor - like the 'Beetlejuice' films. I just love that Tim Burton stuff.

The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

I don't do the whole L.A. nightlife thing.

Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.

All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad's work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.

AC/DC is like a... It's an institution, for a start. The fans feel a part of the family, and that's a good feeling.

I'm very keen on outdoor things, lots of running and cycling.

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

I think telepathy exists, and I think quantum physics will help us understand its basic properties.

I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could see what was underneath. But it's the not knowing what's there that freaks me out.

Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.

Everyone in the world of cycling knows how much it is a team sport as well as individual. It's just amazing to be a part of.

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

Politics is a blood sport.

I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

I'd love to pop back into 'Being Human' as Adam. I love the character so much. I've never really played a character like that. I'm always playing the geek, so to play a kid who is very energetic when he wants to be, and who is always trying to get the girls, was really cool.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.

It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

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.'

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

I've picked a camera up a few times. I remember buying my first camera when I was about 18 and really going wild with it, as you do as an 18-year-old, especially when you're in college.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.

A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality.

I've been through the first cap, the 50th, and the 100th, and I defy any player who has ever gone past all those milestones to look at each of them and say that first cap isn't the one that makes him tingle the most.

To be honest, I'm not even thinking about America. If I was to start thinking about the enormity of 'Downton' and the size of the project, then I wouldn't be able to be very truthful to the work. I would start to watch myself too much. I'm not even thinking about it. Who knows what will happen.

I want men to be asking to play great female parts!

Players hold a lot of their emotions in.

Now that sports science is more advanced, we know that there are so many off-pitch factors that can affect how good you can become. If people are telling you to sleep a certain number of hours, eat specific foods, and drink a certain volume of fluids, then you have to be prepared to listen and learn.

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

At drama school, a casting director asked the class to walk round the room one at a time, and we had to imagine who they might be. The two before me were described as a doctor and a businessman, but when it came to me, they said homeless person. That was when I thought I'd better do something about my appearance!

Globalization can be shaped to ensure that people matter.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.

The marvelous thing about 'Doctor Who' is that it tells stories that no one else can tell.

Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.

I personally cannot watch horror films: I am a scaredy cat and scare incredibly easily.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.