Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love… The mining industry. Milk. – Rhys Ifans
I’m Welsh. We didn’t do ‘Peter Pan.’ We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with. – Rhys Ifans
It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around. – Rhys Ifans
I go to work, and I work very hard. I’m loyal, generous, true, kind, fair – all those boxes are ticked. I’m going to Heaven. – Rhys Ifans
The older I get, I’m really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society. – Rhys Ifans
I don’t have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds. A stick can become a sword. Or a bowl of stones can become a bowl of tomatoes. That’s what children do, and that’s what CGI enables us to do. – Rhys Ifans
I’m a sporadic reader. I have moments when I can’t stop… then I kind of forget that I can read. But then I go, ‘Oh God, yeah, books!’ – Rhys Ifans
There’s two kinds of rock n’ roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and then suddenly it stops. Or there’s when you’re in a band: it is all-consuming, so then you have the dream of that, and then the dream’s taken away from you even before it happens. – Rhys Ifans
For me, ‘Come and See’ is, by a million miles, the best film about war that has ever been made. I would highly recommend, encourage and enforce anyone to watch it. – Rhys Ifans
I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician. – Rhys Ifans
I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time. – Rhys Ifans
I’ll move back to Wales if and when I have children. I want them to speak the language I speak, but I love living in London. It’s my favourite city in the whole world. I love it because it’s not England, it’s London. – Rhys Ifans
I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off – it’s a good place to work and to party. – Rhys Ifans
Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a minute. – Rhys Ifans
Film and stage are very different; I don’t necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be. – Rhys Ifans
I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it’s important not to belittle the child audience. – Rhys Ifans
I’m a passionate Welshman. I have a culinary relationship with language: I taste what I say because I have two languages, and each informs the other. – Rhys Ifans
I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me. – Rhys Ifans
