Gruffudd Ioan Quotes & Sayings

Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave. — Nichelle Nichols

I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week. — Samantha Fox

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

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

My heart is set on my dreams, I persevere and I make a difference — Wogu Donald

It's really an organic sort of process. You start off with the character on the page. You fall in love with that character and you have to represent that character well and I think it's just an evolution there. Using the accent and speaking the lines with the accent in fact opens the door to who the character really is. — Ioan Gruffudd

I love doing kids' films. — Ioan Gruffudd

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. — William Jennings Bryan

Yeah, it didn't work like that because lies cannot protect — Danielle Bernock

A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is. — 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

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

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are. — 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

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

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else. — George Pierce Baker

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

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. — Abraham Lincoln

He's fighting it, probably more for me than for him, and it's hard because unconsciousness would be its own form of escape. But the adrenaline pumping through my body would never allow me to follow him, so I can't let him go. I just can't. — Suzanne Collins

As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way. — 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

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

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

You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true. — Carl De Keyzer

I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me. — Edith Cavell

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills. — Ioan Gruffudd

When you're on the run, there are a few important skills that every person should have:

1.) Resolve: If you're not in it to win it, you won't last long.
2.) Languages: The more you can speak, the more places you can hide.
3.) Fighting: Learn well, and don't ever let anyone know how well you've learned.
4.) Bartending: Seriously, it's a universally needed skill set. — Melissa Copeland

Ceviche is an acquired taste, a phrase which here means something you don't like the first few times you eat it ... — Lemony Snicket

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

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

When moonlight french kisses the Manhattan midnight
There's a not a face without a teardrop that's in sight
Midnights in Manhattan keep me dreamin'
I think I'm gonna keep em — Mac Lethal

And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume! — Ioan Gruffudd

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. — Matthew Rhys

Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to. — Conrad Sewell

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

I'm not getting younger, so there's a commitment to the cause that one has to make — Ioan Gruffudd