Rhys Ifans Quotes

My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

We moved to America when I was young, but we were always very Welsh in our home. The humor, food, traditions. Very Welsh.

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.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

I'm a proud Welshman.

My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?

I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

The Queen takes this occasion of repeating her hope that Gaelic will be taught in future in the Highland schools, as well as English, as it is really a great mistake that the people should be constantly talking a language which they often cannot read and generally not write. Being very partial to her loyal and good Highlanders, the Queen takes much interest in what she thinks will tend more than anything to keep up their simplicity of character, which she considers a great merit in these days. The Queen thinks equally that Welsh should be taught in Wales as well as English.

Obviously Gwilym is a very Welsh name! My father is from Maesteg, and my mother's from Abergavenny.

Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country.

I'm a Welshman through and through.

The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.

I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.

Latin is beautiful and has become something of an international language, but there is also something about singing in your native language that has meaning.

I think it's about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has to keep their own language just to bring something else, something different, and show a different vision of the world, actually. And that's why I'm trying to keep my language.

I'm not more Brazilian than I am American or vice-versa - I'm very much a combination of all of those things.

I don't really feel an allegiance to any of the countries I have lived in, even though I feel like part of them, and part of them is in me.

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.

I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.