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I'm a real magpie when it comes to music; it's all random, and there's no pattern to what I like.
Rhys Ifans
Music
Random
Like
Real
Pattern
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
War
Best
Me
Made
Recommend
Would
See
About
Highly
Come
Been
Encourage
Anyone
Enforce
Miles
Film
Ever
Million
Watch
I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself more in roles emotionally.
Rhys Ifans
Myself
Giving
Older
More
Emotionally
Indulgent
Becoming
Get
Roles
Less
Actor
I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.
Rhys Ifans
Myself
Home
Ego
Result
Seriously
Gone
Back
More
Take
Taking
Am
Get
Just
Anymore
Holiday
Flight
I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.
Rhys Ifans
Work
Good
Party
Think
Rubs
Good Place
Generosity
Off
Place
Which
Liverpool
I just don't buy the tabloids.
Rhys Ifans
Buy
Tabloids
Just
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
Work
Those
Kind
True
Generous
Fair
Ticked
Boxes
Go
Very
Going
Heaven
Hard
Loyal
Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.
Rhys Ifans
Me
Heart
Strange
Become
Simply
Intellectual
Where
Process
Acting
I do find real life a bit overwhelming sometimes. I'm totally chaotic.
Rhys Ifans
Life
Sometimes
Real Life
Overwhelming
Chaotic
Bit
Find
Totally
Real
I am essentially very shy. Which, I guess, is why I'm very good at not being shy.
Rhys Ifans
Good
Guess
Am
Very
Essentially
Being
Which
Why
Shy
I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.
Rhys Ifans
Art
Time
Great
Think
Great Art
Appropriate
Never
Answer
Questions
Any
Just
Ask
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.
Rhys Ifans
Ethics
Other
Local
Spider-Man
Something
More
Tangible
Very
Than
Any
Far
Us
Presents
I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.
Rhys Ifans
Education
Theatre
Passion
Important
Think
Audience
Child
Acting
Belittle
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
Love
Speak
World
Language
Living
Back
City
Favourite
London
Because
Wales
Move
Children
Want
Them
England
Whole
Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.
Rhys Ifans
You
Women
Relatives
Unless
Tactile
Most
Welsh
Want
Them
Then
Your
What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.
Rhys Ifans
World
Extraordinary
Cities
London
About
Voice
Occupy
Louder
Than
Biggest
Village
Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.
Rhys Ifans
You
Important
Think
See
More
Important Thing
Expansive
Little
Them
Themselves
Fun
Villains
Lets
Thing
Playing
The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.
Rhys Ifans
Disbelief
Genre
Deceit
Suspension
Theater
Whole
Film
Based
The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you're lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you're playing, I'd say, 'It's obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.'
Rhys Ifans
Character
You
Strange
Experience
Enough
Drama
Meet
Diligently
Say
About
Students
Know
Obvious
Quiz
Them
Should
Strange Thing
Speaking
Lucky
Thing
Playing
Film can become stagnant as a medium.
Rhys Ifans
Become
Medium
Stagnant
Film
I love how 'Game of Thrones' has resonated with so many people around the world. I feel like it has really tapped into our need to hear stories about the human condition, love, death, good, evil... For me, it really is a modern version of the old Greek theatre or cave men sitting around fires telling stories.
Richard Brake
Love
Death
Good
Me
Game
Theatre
People
World
Old
Evil
Men
Our
Telling
About
Fires
Feel
Like
Around
How
Hear
Condition
Cave
Version
Greek
Sitting
Modern
Human
So Many People
Stories
Human Condition
Really
Game Of Thrones
Many
Need
We moved to America when I was young, but we were always very Welsh in our home. The humor, food, traditions. Very Welsh.
Richard Brake
Food
Home
Humor
Young
Our
Always
Welsh
Were
Traditions
Very
America
Moved
Obviously, the Night's King is clearly a symbol of something very unpleasant in our psyche, and he even raises wights from the dead, which is probably everybody's worst fear, being actually used after we're dead.
Richard Brake
Fear
King
Everybody
Our
Worst
Unpleasant
Something
He
Clearly
Dead
Obviously
Very
Psyche
Being
After
Which
Used
Even
Actually
Symbol
Night
Raises
I've played a lot of these characters that aren't particularly pleasant and pretty powerful, bad people, and one thing I've discovered is that there's a real stillness to these guys.
Richard Brake
People
Bad People
Stillness
Pleasant
Characters
Bad
One Thing
Pretty
Guys
Powerful
Particularly
Real
Discovered
Lot
Thing
Played
I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.
Richard Burton
Myself
Writing
Feeling
Nothing
Please
Though
Some
Head
Am
Been
May
Place
How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?
Richard Burton
You
Alien
Strangers
Live
Find
Both
Another
How
Years
Person
Eight
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