Rhys Ifans Quotes

• Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

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  Humility, Bravery, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

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  Art, People, Watches

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• If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.

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  Scary, Ifs

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• But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].

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  Reading, Wife, Secret

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The joy of a period film is that you're taken to another world. The costumes determine the way you move, and then consequently the way you breathe. And then, the way you breathe effects the way you think.

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  Moving, Taken, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Dressing Up, The End Of The Day, Actors

  "Rhys Ifans and Anna Friel NEVERLAND Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 28, 2011.

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• I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

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  Misfits, Bits

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• Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.

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  Kings, Queens, Grief

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

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  Way, My Way, Arrested

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• In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

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  Party, Skills, Singing

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• When Howard Marks came out of prison, years later, I met him at a concert in South Wales; I was a young whippersnapper and Howard was kind of an outlaw hero. I said to him - and it's on tape, a cousin of his filmed our meeting - I said, "If you write a book, I want to play you in a movie." He said, "Let's shake on it," and we did. Thirteen years later, there we were, making the movie.

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  Cousin, Book, Hero

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am the least likely person in the world to be in an American football film! Which is why I couldn't say no to The Replacements; I thought it was hilarious.

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  Football, World, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.

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  Taken, Roles, Reckless

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• I'm interested in playing Rasputin at some point. I find him such a fascinating character and a fascinating period in Russian history. Either Rasputin or Jesus. I think I have more of a chance to play Rasputin.

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  Jesus, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We're both Welshmen and growing up, when Howard Marks was finally caught, it was all over the news. He did an interview in the Welsh language, which I also speak, and I was sort of just amazed that this man from a small country was for many years supplying much of the world with most of the marijuana it was smoking. It was incredible.

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  Country, Growing Up, Marijuana

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whenever you're doing film for television and you look at the budget that you have, which is much more constricted than a movie budget, you think, "God, are they going to be able to do what they say they are?"

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  Thinking, Looks, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice.

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  Nice, People, Lines

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• 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.

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  Party, Book, Hard Work

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

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  Old Friends, Punk, Punk Rock

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Howard Marks is very intelligent and well read, eloquent, witty, charming. I think it was those qualities that got him through. I was interested to explore that because generally, we perceive criminals as dark, twisted, angry characters. Howard isn't any of those. He was punished for his crime, released from prison, and has lived to tell the tale.

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  Witty, Character, Dark

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.

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  Fun, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think Jesus was a bit more of a fun guy. I'd like to play Him like maybe some days He doesn't fancy it, being God. Some days He's miracled-out and just wants to go have a smoke.

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  Jesus, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

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  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

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