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Quotes by Welsh Authors
"So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor."
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"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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"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."
7
"This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time."
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"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."
4
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
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"I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am."
3
"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set."
3
"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience."
2
"The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional."
2
"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."
2
"But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya."
2
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down."
2
"He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle."
2
"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."
2
"After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films."
1
"It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience."
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"If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress."
1
"I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning."
1
"I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way."
1
"Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him."
1
"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."
1
"In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world."
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"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
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"When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West."
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"I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor."
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"When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered."
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