Rhys Ifans
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Biography
Rhys Owain Evans, known as Rhys Ifans, is a Welsh actor. He has portrayed roles in Twin Town (1997), Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), Notting Hill (1999), Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), Enduring Love (2004), and The Boat That Rocked (2009), in addition to Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), Dr.
"I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art."
"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."
"You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think."
"All punk rockers hate Christmas."
"I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician."
"Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of."
"When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place."
"As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do."