Rhys Quotes

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

There's such a unique humour in Wales that I just love and miss in Los Angeles.

I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.

You play to whatever publication you're being interviewed by.

I got a lot out of 'Brothers Sisters' and learnt some incredible things and I think it certainly had come to a natural ending, so it was definitely time to move on.

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling.

I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.

I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.

I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.

I love the stage. I'm always sniffing around to see if there's something I can squidge in quickly.

I know ladies don’t sweat, but something was running down my face in great rivulets.

Why is it that there is this misconception that dark equals good. That only applies to chocolate.

They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

I've always been into monsters.

I do want to come across something, I do want to feel something and see something.

I missed Breaking Bad and people just go on and on about it until you're blue in the face with envy and you've got to watch it.

My optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.

I am very much into the paranormal.

I tried my best [on audition for X-Files], and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted.

I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.

I think Psycho Sam is closer to the real me in some ways which is frightening to admit, but I guess... I mean, I'm definitely into the paranormal.

That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script [Voltron] is very matter of factly.

You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.

I guess, on my list, going back to some old American stuff and British stuff that I used to love in the '80s, would be a British show called Dad's Army, which recently just turned into a movie.

When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

I've seen UFOs, and Loch Ness - I've been to Loch Ness a few times looking for Nessie, and that's also a beautiful place to be.

I've never really been into ghosts or spirits, and I've only had a couple of those kind of experiences.

I'm probably a monster-of-the-week guy, and that comes back down to my old favorite show, which as a kid was always Scooby-Doo.

That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.

I'd love to be [one of MacGyver's buddies]. I'd watch that one and just think, wow, what a life. Living in Hawaii, driving around in someone's Ferrari, and solving mysteries.

I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.

Luckily the script [of X-files episode] was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.

Now I'm a big fan [of X-files]. I had to see what all the fuss is about, and I love it.

If you actually just treat people as if they're already in the movement, they're already alongside this movement, and just let them enter the conversation midstream, it's actually more effective.

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 play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.

I think Jesus was a bit more of a fun guy. I'd like to play Him like maybe some days He doesn't fancy it, being God. Some days He's miracled-out and just wants to go have a smoke.

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

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

Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow

I… have an unnatural fondness for him, Duchess. One might even say that I love him. As a man should love a woman, really.” “Well, I would imagine the mechanics of that would be different.

If men stopped making fools of themselves in front of women, I'm 80% sure the planet would cease to spin on its axis.

Your husband certainly love money, ' she said. 'That is no lie Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else.

I thought if I told no one it might not be true.