If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.
If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.
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.
A pub can be a magical place.
I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.
I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.
All punk rockers hate Christmas.
My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?
Spider-Man is a school boy that's looking for his parents.
Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable.
On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it's good, they say, 'Let's do another one for insurance.'
Club DJs don't talk to the crowd.
It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.
I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.
There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and then suddenly it stops. Or there's when you're in a band: it is all-consuming, so then you have the dream of that, and then the dream's taken away from you even before it happens.
The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you're lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you're playing, I'd say, 'It's obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.'
In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.
Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.
The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.
