Quotes by Rhys Ifans - Page 2

I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself more in roles emotionally.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Emotionally
Indulgent
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The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Deceit
Disbelief
Film
Genre
Suspension
Theater
Based
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I go to work, and I work very hard. I'm loyal, generous, true, kind, fair - all those boxes are ticked. I'm going to Heaven.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Boxes
Generous
Heaven
Loyal
Ticked
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Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a minute.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Carpet
Lasts
Red Carpet
Rejected
Minute
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In terms of partying and reckless abandon, I'm Don Juan. But, in terms of my heart, I'm the most loyal man you'll ever meet.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Abandon
Juan
Loyal
Reckless
Partying
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I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Appropriate
Great Art
Time Art Great
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What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Cities
Extraordinary
London
Village
Louder
Occupy
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I'm a sporadic reader. I have moments when I can't stop... then I kind of forget that I can read. But then I go, 'Oh God, yeah, books!'
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Moments
Reader
Yeah
Oh
Oh God
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As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Empty
Empty Space
Palette
Onto
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More than any other super-hero, 'Spider-Man' presents us with something very local in its ethics. It's not messianic. It's far more tangible.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Ethics
Spider Man
Tangible
Presents
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You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Idiotic
Prohibition
Substance
Invariably
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I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Break
Conditions
Demand
Weeks
Reached
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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.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Reckless
Roles
Taken
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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.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Fun
Important
Thinking
Expansive
Important Thing
Lets
Villains
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I'm a passionate Welshman. I have a culinary relationship with language: I taste what I say because I have two languages, and each informs the other.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Culinary
Taste
Languages
Informs
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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.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Actors
Consciousness
Dressing Up
Joyous
The End Of The Day
End Of The Day Day End
Dressing
End Of The Day
Enter
Grounds
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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.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Centre
Information
Internet
Gathered
Pub
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Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Flawed
Godlike
Mysterious
Spider Man
Batman
Unknowable
Whereas
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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.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Film
Football
World
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If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Elizabethan
England
Flux
Period
Equate
Presented
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For me, 'Come and See' is, by a million miles, the best film about war that has ever been made. I would highly recommend, encourage and enforce anyone to watch it.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Miles
Enforce
Recommend
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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.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Ability
Book
Hard
Hard Work
Party
Best Work Me
Best Work I Am
Doing
Same
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Rule
Rule Book
Work Hard
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I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Flight
Holiday
Home Myself I Am
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When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Court
Different Place
Evidence
Musician
Forensic
Subject
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I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Cinema
Humour
Liverpool
Modern History
Absorb
Lends
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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.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Jesus
Fun
Guy
Thinking
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Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Canon
Century
Exemplary
Invaluable
Late
Native
Photographer
Disappearing
Document
Edward
Native Americans
Rapidly
Tried
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Acting is a tough, difficult job with long unsociable hours, although it can be a brilliant job, too. I don't want to complain too much, as nurses, farmers and teachers are out working long hours.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Brilliant
Farmers
Long Hours
Teachers
Complain
Difficult Job
Nurses
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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.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Moving
Taken
Thinking
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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?"
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Looks
Television
Thinking
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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.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Jesus
Chance
Character
Thinking
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I'll move back to Wales if and when I have children. I want them to speak the language I speak, but I love living in London. It's my favourite city in the whole world. I love it because it's not England, it's London.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Favourite
Wales
Love World City
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There is no such thing as a criminal life. Life is life, and life is criminalized. No one ever, in the history of life, has chosen a criminal life. No one has ever said, 'I want to be a criminal.' No one ever has done that.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Chosen
Criminal
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The majority of comic book villains are pure evil, but Curt Connors is an exception. Curt Connors is a good man who initially wants to save the world, but he gets hungry and greedy and reckless, and he pays the price for that.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Comic
Comic Book
Exception
Good Man
Greedy
Hungry
Majority
Pure
Reckless
Save The World
Good Man World
Initially
Pays
Price
Villains
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I don't have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds. A stick can become a sword. Or a bowl of stones can become a bowl of tomatoes. That's what children do, and that's what CGI enables us to do.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Cgi
Children
Green
Problem
Tomatoes
Bowl
Enables
Green Screen
Invent
Stick
Screen
Sword
Worlds
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The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you're lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you're playing, I'd say, 'It's obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.'
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Obvious
Quiz
Diligently
Strange Thing
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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
Hero
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There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and then suddenly it stops. Or there's when you're in a band: it is all-consuming, so then you have the dream of that, and then the dream's taken away from you even before it happens.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Adoration
Band
Huge
Taken
Casualty
Rock
Suddenly
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I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Teacher
Drama
Royal
Taught
Voice
Wonderful
Affiliated
Works
Coach
Shakespeare
Technician
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but I am convinced that the Stratfordian William Shakespeare was not. My feeling is that it was an amalgamation of many writers, in the same way that most films are a collaborative endeavor.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Endeavor
Oxford
Done I Am Way
Author
Earl
William
Onstage
Shakespeare
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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.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Bravery
Different
Humility
Badly
Craft
Itch
Remind
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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.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Country
Growing Up
Marijuana
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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.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Character
Dark
Witty
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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.
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Book
Cousin
Hero
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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].
Rhys Ifans / Actor
Reading
Secret
Wife
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