46 Welsh Quotes for You to Enjoy

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional. Richard Burton

Become Bad Only Bad Ones Welsh Who Professional Actor

I do what I can, but I'll always give it a shot. You're not going to see me playing a Welsh character any time soon, not because I wouldn't love to. I went up to Wales once and read for a film with Rhys Ifans, and haven't been asked back since. We did have a nice time on the train on the way back. Aidan Gillen

Love Time Character Me You Nice Back Once Way See Give Soon Since Read Because Always Welsh Been Up Wales Train Did Any Going Asked Shot Film Playing

Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday. Alex Kingston

Time People Every Every Time Driver Reminded Know Most Catherine Welsh American English Shown Even Dr British

For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I've got so many: Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Reed. If they got 'Hunky Dory' and 'Citadel' offered to them, they would do completely different jobs on both of them. Aneurin Barnard

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. Ann Romney

Cleaning Old Job First Miner Mines Kids Out Determined Bottles He First Job Arms Got Am Welsh His Years Wales Get Six Little Granddaughter Coal Who Village Dad

The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up. Arthur Smith

Best Light Reading Before Stretching Way Bit Out Best Way Eat Some Shakespearean Supper Perhaps Exercises Welsh Arrive Tragedy Up Afternoon Then Prepare Early Night

All players, whether they're Spanish, French, English, Welsh, want to play football. To play. Brendan Rodgers

Football French Welsh Want Whether Spanish English Play Play Football Players

It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company. Bryn Terfel

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Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life. Bryn Terfel

Life Work You Cafe Speak Mother Language Community Live Beneficial Local Out Pretty Part Come Learn Because Mother Tongue Welsh Quickly Going Children Pub Work Out Tongue Need

Being Welsh means you sometimes get exposed to international football earlier. Again, that helps player development, speeds up their thought process in a different kind of environment. Craig Bellamy

You Sometimes Thought Speeds Thought Process Kind Football Environment Development Welsh Up Get Being Different Process Again Different Kind Means International Exposed Helps Earlier Player

John Hartson, he speaks fluent Welsh and has the tattoos all over him to prove his Welshness. But in my own world, no one is more Welsh than myself. Craig Bellamy

Myself World Own Fluent John My Own More No-One He Over Him Prove Welsh His Than Tattoos Speaks

In 1977, while I was performing in a play in Cardiff, a friend introduced me to a striking redhead called Myfanwy Talog, famed for her appearances on Welsh television with the comedy duo Rees and Ronnie. We were instantly smitten and eventually moved in together, sharing 18 happy years. David Jason

Me Together Happy Comedy Striking Television Introduced Sharing Instantly Performing Smitten Redhead Welsh Were Years Friend Duo Moved While Ronnie Appearances Eventually Play Her

Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's difficult at times. But when I go home to north Wales, or to somewhere I've never been in south Wales, I still feel at home because I'm in Wales. It's hard to explain. Gary Speed

Home You Try Somewhere Difficult Everyone About Never Feel Know Because Proud Still Welsh Go Go Home Been South Fervently Wales Times North Explain Hard

I regret not paying a bit more attention to Welsh lessons at school. My Welsh is pretty ropey, as back at my school, people didn't take Welsh lessons seriously. My dad can speak it, so I wish he'd taught me some growing up. Geraint Thomas

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish. Graham Coxon

Remember Think London Pretty Similar More Welsh Leeds Irish Than Bands American Manchester Anytime Whether English Now

I grew up in Shropshire, but I was born in Wales. There was a hospital seven miles away, but my dad drove 45 miles over the Welsh border so I could play rugby for Wales. But as a skinny asthmatic, I was only ever good at swimming. Greg Davies

There are four of us, and we were all born in different cities because my dad worked all around the place. We settled in Birmingham, so I spent most of my time growing up there. We were all given very Welsh names - Geraint, Owen, Rhiannon and Gwilym. My mum's called Cainwen, and my dad is somewhat disappointingly called Tom. Gwilym Lee

Time Birmingham Settled Spent Cities All-Around Born Given My Time Somewhat Names Most Because Around Welsh Were Up Very Different Place Us Worked Tom Dad Growing Growing Up Mum Four

When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.' Hari Kondabolu

You College White Heritage Say Give Well Equation Welsh Math Cultural Friends German Irish American Just Native Native American Ask Your Applications Fourth Third

I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks. Ian Rankin

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection. Ian Rush

Lead Lead Singer Like Know Singer Welsh Connection Kelly

The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit. Ian Rush

Only Welsh The Only Thing Cook Thing

My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s. Kate Williams

Old Meet Unmarried Until She Welsh Quite Grandfather Grandmother Early

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