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Rhys Ifans
Welsh
Actor
Born:
Jul 22
,
1967
Film
Good
Life
Me
Think
You
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A pub can be a magical place.
Rhys Ifans
Magical
Place
Pub
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
Work
Best
Me
Book
Work Hard
Party
Rule
Rule Book
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Ability
Take
Know
Am
Doing
Go
Same
Hard
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.
Rhys Ifans
Failure
You
Culture
Think
Prohibition
Invariably
Look
Idiotic
Been
Any
Just
Substance
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
We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.
Rhys Ifans
Age
Path
Society
Take
Which
Choice
Enlightenment
In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.
Rhys Ifans
Singing
Party
Wales
Storytelling
Skills
Professions
The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.
Rhys Ifans
War
Daily
Lost
Being
War On Drugs
Daily Basis
Basis
I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
Rhys Ifans
Art
People
Only
Became
Becomes
Am
Artisan
Artist
Watch
Club DJs don't talk to the crowd.
Rhys Ifans
Club
Crowd
Talk
When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.
Rhys Ifans
School
Alien
Made
Sense
Shakespeare
No Sense
Puzzle
Taught
I'm always flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the audience a film reaches.
Rhys Ifans
Audience
Always
Overwhelmed
Film
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.
Rhys Ifans
Culture
Internet
Community
Come
Where
Information
Pub
Centre
Gathered
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.
Rhys Ifans
World
Walk
Space
Empty Space
Imagination
Our
Onto
Beyond
Empty
Very
Then
Actor
Palette
Imagine
If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.
Rhys Ifans
Dead
Rock
Rock Star
Been
Star
Now
I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.
Rhys Ifans
Bit
Admit
Freely
Am
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
Success
You
Before
Band
Dream
Kinds
Adoration
Casualty
Taken
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Huge
Roll
Stops
Happens
Then
Even
Suddenly
Away
Two
I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.
Rhys Ifans
Crisis
Had
Longest
Mid-Life
Mid-Life Crisis
Ever
I never thought I would be in a film.
Rhys Ifans
Thought
Would
Would-Be
Never
Film
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
Beautiful
Teacher
Music
Wonderful
School
Enough
Drama
Shakespeare
Voice
Lot
Affiliated
Taught
Which
Coach
Who
Works
Company
Lucky
Technician
Royal
I don't do celebrity.
Rhys Ifans
Celebrity
I'm a factory-floor actor: I learn the lines, I get there on time.
Rhys Ifans
Time
Learn
Lines
Get
Actor
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