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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."
"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."
"The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do."
"I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash."
"I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor."
"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."
"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."
"The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional."
"I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons."
"I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette."
"The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps."
"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."
"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."
"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 decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit."
"And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it."
"No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years."
"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
"I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am."
"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."
"Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed."
"From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance."
"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."
"Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky."
"When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered."
"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."
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