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Quotes by Welsh Authors

"There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see."

"After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity."

"When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk."

"I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there."

"What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart."

"The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment."

"It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction."

"For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced."

"You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology."

"Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing."

"It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis."

"Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country."

"I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you."

"So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush."

"I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same."

"What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity."

"Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory."

"We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel."

"You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous."

"I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that."

"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest."

"Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great."

"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."

"The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do."
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