Rhys Ifans Quotes

Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

When I was on the court, I played. When I trained, I trained hard. But as soon as that thing was over, I switched off and enjoyed my life.

Vermaelen is like a role model to me. His life is all about football and he's extremely disciplined. I'm more laid-back than he is. Thomas isn't the type of person to go out for a drink on a regular basis, unlike me.

I always make sure I work hard every day and give everything in the game, in training, and off the pitch, too.

Listen - we party, we have fun, we live life to the fullest. But we're also professional, we also wake up every day and stay on time for our meetings and we also have a structure and a certain structure and a certain substance behind the brand. It's not just luck.

Anything I do in life, I always want to work hard, play hard and so I'm still drinking my wine, I'm still eating my McDonald's on Sundays, but I am working hard through the week.

At the end of the day, I'm a professional. I've got to continue to work hard.

I've always worked. I have always been too responsible. But I don't know how to live any other way. I think that this discipline was also demanded of me by my work.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.

Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.

I like to work hard and play hard.

I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work for me to be the same way.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

When the time comes to work, I work.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

I have a strong work ethic.

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

I have a good work ethic.

It's not all about talent. It's about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you're coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.

I am blessed to be doing what I do. So if I have to be at a photo shoot, do an interview, or make a TV appearance, I am not going to sit around whining and complaining about how I don't want to get up early or I don't feel like talking.