Rhys Quotes

I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.

Whenever you make a record you want to inject something unique into it, that's unique to where you're from. I suppose that's some kind of inevitability.

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.

I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.

It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?

What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).

She’ll have no lover, for I don’t want her and she’ll see no other.

It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe.

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.

The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.

Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)

She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.

very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.

before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.

Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

Quite like old times,' the room says.

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.

My failures has helped me as much as my successes.

I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

You really have to work harder to come up with new ways to play the scenes.

You really have to keep people interested, at all times, until the punch comes. You can do that with a film that lasts 90 to 100 minutes. That's very difficult to do at 160 minutes.

There's not much of a difference shooting something for TV and shooting something for film; the difference is film is in a cinema and TV is in your home.

I didn't use a phone until I was 14.

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies.

I am one of those actors who does feel a change when a wig and fake nose are put on. Even the weird little things, like glasses - it's almost like having a mask on.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

Any lie should be as close to the truth as possible.

As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair.