Top 930 Quotes & Sayings by Welsh Authors - Page 5

My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can't help it.

I think it's quite tough for people like Tom Cruise where you can never really get away from being Tom Cruise in something. You're so familiar to people and people know so much about your life.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

For some reason, the only Swedish I know how to say is, 'There is no toilet paper.'

My father was the biggest influence on my own parenting because I became the complete opposite to him. He found it very difficult to show physical love, like cuddling and that kind of stuff, so I went the other way.

I love life because what more is there?

For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.

I don't like inherited wealth.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals.

All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.

'The Da Vinci Code' and films of that nature are the ones that I really enjoy because you are learning and working out riddles as you go along.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis - huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.

Every time I pull on a Madrid or Wales top, I run myself into the ground.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.

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.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.

At the time I discovered that I had prostate cancer, it was not long after my first wife had died, so my children had lost their mum. I felt that to tell them that I had prostate cancer, while I knew that I had it and there was a threat of some sort, I felt that it would be wise not to make things worse for them.

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

When I've had money I've always spent it. I don't invest. A pension? Yes, it's called my talent.

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors.

I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

'The Great Fire' is more what I'm used to - being in costume and make-up for a long time, trying to be 'period appropriate.'

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

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

I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.

Sometimes the manager actually is the glue that holds everything together, and when you take that manager out, sometimes that's when things start to go really wrong.

Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.

Everybody has a story... and a scream.

The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

I'm only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it's all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I'm just looking forward to knowing more.

My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from.

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.

Whatever career you are in, you always have other distractions.

It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.

Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.

My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.

The early '20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and squeezing through it and then hurtling out the other side.

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.

Both my daughters are both so unimpressed when they see me on television. I want them to say, 'Oh, Dad!' But I say, 'Who's that?' and they say 'Dad' with no real interest, even if I'm wearing a long wig and riding on a horse! I think I'll have to read a 'CBeebies' bedtime story instead.

I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful!

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!

I do look better on TV. In real life, I look scruffy and pale, and I get the worst kind of recognition... I get the 'Haven't we met somewhere before?' I suggest it might be because I'm on the telly, and they say, 'No, it's definitely not that. Wasn't it at so-and-so's party?'

Be positive and laugh at everything.

It's difficult when you're young and you're not playing for your club.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.