Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

Growing up in Wales, there was a lot of fervour about being Welsh. But the more that I travelled, I realised that people aren't always interested in where you're from, but who you are.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

I defy any British actor to deny they've not stood in front of the mirror and said: 'Bond, James Bond.'

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

Often in my game as an actor, someone else pays for your travel and there's nothing like being able to lie flat on a flight home from L.A.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

I love doing kids' films.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd

I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.