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Quotes by Welsh Authors
"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest."
"The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do."
"The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional."
"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 worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor."
"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."
"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."
"Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed."
"I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash."
"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."
"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."
"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."
"The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps."
"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."
"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."
"Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound."
"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."
"No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues."
"Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer."
"It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors."
"I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back."
"I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am."
"When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered."
"Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought."
"We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage."
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