Rhys Ifans Quotations

As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change.

After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

I'm always flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the audience a film reaches.

If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.

Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed.

I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.

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.

The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.

Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.