Quotes from Rhys Ifans

I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.

I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

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.

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.

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

I don't do celebrity.

There aren't many odysseys in cinema for characters.

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

I think Jesus was a bit more of a fun guy. I'd like to play Him like maybe some days He doesn't fancy it, being God. Some days He's miracled-out and just wants to go have a smoke.

Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.

Club DJs don't talk to the crowd.

I just don't buy the tabloids.

More than any other super-hero, 'Spider-Man' presents us with something very local in its ethics. It's not messianic. It's far more tangible.

I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot.

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.

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

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

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.

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.