Rhys Ifans
Actor
1967-07-22
Quotes by Rhys Ifans
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Film can become stagnant as a medium.
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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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Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk.
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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.
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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.
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The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.
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If you've got a camera, go to a war zone and tell a story.
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The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.
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Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.
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I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.
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As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change.
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My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?
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