Top 930 Quotes & Sayings by Welsh Authors - Page 3

I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time.

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

I've put on a helmet more times than I've buckled a seatbelt.

It's always fun to play bad characters.

I'm a sportsman, as good and strong as you, who just happens to be gay.

I hate driving.

I don't have a car - I have a beautiful Pinarello bike.

I try to be respectful and talk to any fan and sign anything that anyone wants. Without the fans, you're not much. You need fans to do this job. I've got a nice little following, and it seems to be growing as each thing comes out.

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition.

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

I like jumping to perspectives that aren't necessarily part of our characters, like suddenly you're in a window, looking from someone's house.

From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.

Having kids, you can't function with a hangover.

In Britain, we have this attitude that people are one-hit wonders. If it proves that way, I'd rather have had that one hit than not at all.

My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.

I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

I'd done kids' TV in the U.K., but not great kids' TV. So yes, 'Submarine' was the first film and the first good thing that I have done.

I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.

I like to drink to suit my location.

I've been using slide guitar, banjo, stuff like that for yonks. But if people haven't seen me live on stage, they wouldn't have heard me with these instruments.

I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

People talk about great motivators, but I think motivation has to come from within the individual first, because if you haven't got that inner strength yourself, and belief and you want to do well, it doesn't matter what anybody else says. You have to have that; it has to be inbuilt.

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

I was an annoying schoolboy, always getting into scraps.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

One time I had to file the teeth of a carthorse. They're such gentle creatures.

I played on anger for the first 15 years of my career.

I start with the history, and I ask myself, 'What are the great turning points? What are the big dramatic scenes that are essential to telling the story?'

I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.

It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.

You work all your life to get the top; you don't want to give that up.

I used to run home from school to watch Paris-Nice, so to win it is just crazy.

If you have 130 people on set, all with different opinions, sometimes it's going to kick off. There might be some people who say I'm a big problem to work with - that you couldn't tell me anything - but hopefully, they don't.

We are very conscious of our poor record against the SANZAR nations. We've simply not done well enough against New Zealand or South Africa.

Whenever we're playing in front of a Welsh crowd, they really do give you that extra bit to get the win.

I do seem to look like a lot of people.

My name is synonymous with corsets and ringlets.

I'd like to think I'm one of the most competitive people I know.

Before, I would spend all my hours at training, come home, sleep, eat, watch football, sleep, and go back to training the next day. Now I do the school run, train, pick up my daughter. I am living in the real world. I am a father now. That has given me more satisfaction than football.

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on their travels, and we kept in touch.

Success is always less funny than failure.

My friends and family keep me grounded.

Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.

Women want to be entertained. They want value for money from a man. You have to have the whole package.

People have a perception of you and that's very difficult to change.

I think the English public loves period drama. I love watching them myself. It's such a massive part of our TV tastes, even though, as an actor, you don't want to be doing the same thing again and again.

I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.

I now hate actors that blink too much on screen. When people blink, I turn the movie off. So I don't blink at all.

Winning just makes you more determined to go on and do more.