Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role, you don't have any friends, you're incredibly competitive and any actor who tells you different is lying.


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Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his ...
MATTHEW RHYS
I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting...
MATTHEW RHYS
One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be...
JEAN RHYS
Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
JEAN RHYS
Generally speaking, I'm a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a...
MATTHEW RHYS
I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belitt...
RHYS IFANS
There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
JEAN RHYS
I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's fu...
MATTHEW RHYS
The touring comic is a lonely soul, sometimes dabbling into conversation with a colleague in the gre...
RHYS DARBY
The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.
RHYS IFANS
I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at ...
MATTHEW RHYS
Acting is a tough, difficult job with long unsociable hours, although it can be a brilliant job, too...
RHYS IFANS
The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you&...
RHYS IFANS
When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before cou...
RHYS IFANS
Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormous...
MATTHEW RHYS
Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a penc...
RHYS ALEXANDER
Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable bill...
RHYS IFANS
If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with ...
RHYS IFANS
They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
JEAN RHYS
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
JEAN RHYS
I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.
JEAN RHYS
I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that w...
MATTHEW RHYS
I find Godzilla exciting because he/she/it comes from the sea. It's entirely plausible that it c...
RHYS DARBY
I don't know what it is about 'Godzilla,' but as far as I'm concerned, the more vers...
RHYS DARBY
In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very ...
MATTHEW RHYS
As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then im...
RHYS IFANS
Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves ...
RHYS IFANS
Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable ...
RHYS IFANS
You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idio...
RHYS IFANS
In terms of partying and reckless abandon, I'm Don Juan. But, in terms of my heart, I'm the ...
RHYS IFANS
When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical ...
RHYS DARBY
'MacGyver' of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time because it was a guy ...
RHYS DARBY
I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself...
RHYS IFANS
When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I...
JEAN RHYS
Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed.

But I looked at the dress on the floor and it w...
JEAN RHYS
As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant...
JEAN RHYS
These people all fling themselves at me. Because I am uneasy and sad they all fling themselves at me...
JEAN RHYS
Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hund...
JEAN RHYS
I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.
RHYS IFANS
I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We nee...
MATTHEW RHYS
I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London...
RHYS IFANS
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
JEAN RHYS
I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't com...
MATTHEW RHYS