If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.
Rhys Ifans
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.
A pub can be a magical place.
All punk rockers hate Christmas.
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.
I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.
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.
I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.
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.
In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.
Being on tour is a giggle.
I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.
I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.
Club DJs don't talk to the crowd.
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.
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.
I'm always flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the audience a film reaches.
Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!'
As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change.
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.
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.
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.
Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.
I'm a real magpie when it comes to music; it's all random, and there's no pattern to what I like.
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.
Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a minute.
I am not gadgety at all. It's not that I'm appalled by technology, but I've taken my time acquiring any of it.
My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?
There aren't many odysseys in cinema for characters.
When I was young, I was in a hurry to live. And now I'm just not in a hurry.
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.
On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it's good, they say, 'Let's do another one for insurance.'
Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk.
The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.
I've worked with Hollywood stars, but the reason most of the Hollywood stars I've worked with are Hollywood stars is that they're excellent actors, so I've been very lucky.
People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.
It's every boy's dream to play Captain Hook.
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.
I'm a factory-floor actor: I learn the lines, I get there on time.
In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.
Spider-Man is a school boy that's looking for his parents.
It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.
I play really bad punk rock guitar.
