A biography for Rhys Ifanshasn’t been written yet.
“My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?”
“Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.”
“Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.”
“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.”
“It's a great life being an actor, and I wouldn't change it for anything.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.”
“Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk.”
“My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.”
“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.”
“It's every boy's dream to play Captain Hook.”
“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.”
“Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a minute.”
“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.”
“After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.”
“Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed.”
“Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice.”
“I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.”