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Quotes by Welsh Authors
"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."
"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."
"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."
"When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk."
"You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology."
"The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment."
"What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart."
"You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous."
"For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced."
"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."
"I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same."
"It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction."
"What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity."
"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."
"Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great."
"So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush."
"We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel."
"I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make."
"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."
"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."
"I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting."
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