Words matter. These are the best Matthew Rhys Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We’re sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I’m always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.
I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don’t really get up to much.
There’s such a unique humour in Wales that I just love and miss in Los Angeles.
Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and ‘The Edge Of Love’ was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.
Well, it’s a little harder in New York. It’s not as forgiving to a film crew. You hold up a bunch of New Yorkers who can’t cross the street, they’re not going to take it well. Southern California? They’ll wait. It’s cool man. In New York, they’re like, ‘Are you kidding me? I gotta get to work.’
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.
I thought maybe I’d be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I’d last about five minutes, being a farmer.
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.
I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We’d go to this British pub to watch the ‘Six Nations’ early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.
Generally speaking, I’m a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a regular outing. It’s nothing fancy – just a classic, well-cut suit with clean lines and beautiful tailoring. It’s timeless and you can mix and match it with anything to dress up or dress down.
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’m 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn’t as easy as it used to be.
Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we’re going out I’ll turn up at his house and say, ‘I haven’t got anything to wear,’ and he’ll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky.
I wasn’t one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.
I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.
I’ve aged. ‘Patagonia’ has robbed me of a decade of my life.
I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.
In my head, I think I’d make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don’t think I’d fare very well.
You play to whatever publication you’re being interviewed by.
I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.
I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the ’80s, where there wasn’t texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I’m not well suited to the world of modern technology.
I have very fond memories of the ’80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.
I call Sally Field ‘America’s Mother!’ She is incredible to watch.
I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don’t usually deal with mortality at that early age and it’s given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in.
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.
