Words matter. These are the best Jonathan Pryce Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Oddly enough, I’m not religious but I’m also very fond of St Peter’s in Rome. When I’m there, I always know there’s a good meal not far away.
The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.
When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it’s like to value the theater.
‘Macbeth’ sags in act four – the England scene with Malcolm and Macduff just doesn’t work theatrically. But with ‘Hamlet,’ although the play is so long, Shakespeare manages to sustain the arc.
I’d rather be Welsh than English, that’s for sure.
It was easy for me to play someone with a massive ego. It’s actually really fun to have the freedom to be that person.
I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.
Hamlet’ is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he’s just one part of the story.
You can’t punish the middle classes for going to drama school – you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.
I have just enough public appreciation to make me happy.
I’ll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don’t always have one on the go.
When you play a character, you commit yourself to their beliefs.
What’s great about being an actor is you meet people and form a relationship very quickly.
When you sing on stage, the songs are part of the narrative, but in ‘Unconditional Love,’ it was just singing for singing’s sake. It was playing at being pop star. As a young boy growing up in North Wales, that was my fantasy.
People sometimes ask me why I did this or that project. I say, ‘Well, they asked me.’
I cry very easily.
I’ve never had therapy. Maybe the work is the therapy.
As a child, play, drawing, and painting were important to me – they still are.
It was very amusing to do ‘GI Joe: Retaliation’ scenes with Bruce Willis, who spends months rewriting his dialogue and then turns up and doesn’t say it. Part of the time, he doesn’t say anything, but mumbles and mutters.
I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.
