Quotes by Welsh authors

"This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille"

"I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue"

"I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really"

"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it"

"I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there"

"I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things"

"I love life because what more is there"

"I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons"

"I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen"

"Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it"

"I'm just experimenting with every different type of music you can imagine and seeing where my voice lies and what sounds best. I think when I do finally do the album it will be very eclectic - just loads of different stuff on it. That's what I am hoping"

"I'm curvy and wholesome"

"I know bugger all about golf"

"When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West"

"They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be"

"It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience"

"I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating"

"I can't stand Bob Dylan"

"The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better"

"I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me"

"They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well"

"There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go"

"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message"

"I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make"

"I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living"

"When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart"

"The story behind every song is individual to itself"

"A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed"

"To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key"

"The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick"