RHYS IFANS

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.

If you've got a camera, go to a war zone and tell a story.

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.

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

Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

You know you are in a good film when it affects the audience.

I'm a real magpie when it comes to music; it's all random, and there's no pattern to what I like.

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.

In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.

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

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

It's a great life being an actor, and I wouldn't change it for anything.

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.

There is no such thing as a criminal life. Life is life, and life is criminalized. No one ever, in the history of life, has chosen a criminal life. No one has ever said, 'I want to be a criminal.' No one ever has done that.

I consider projects very deeply, but there's always a point in your life where there's a bit of randomity.

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.

Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis.

I'm a sporadic reader. I have moments when I can't stop... then I kind of forget that I can read. But then I go, 'Oh God, yeah, books!'

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.

I just don't buy the tabloids.

I play really bad punk rock guitar.

I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

Being on tour is a giggle.