Rhys Quotes
Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.
You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.
Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.
I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.
Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.
We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.
No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.
I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.
He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.
Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.
Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.
I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.
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.
I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.
When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.
A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened and that happened... And then the days came and I was alone.
The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?
I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.
You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.
Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon.
I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.
The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.
You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.
There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?
Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.
I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.
