Rhys Ifans
Rhys Ifans
Rhys Ifans is a Welsh actor and musician. He is known for his portrayal of characters such as Spike in Notting Hill, Jed Parry in Enduring Love and Eyeball Paul in Kevin & Perry Go Large. He is also known as a member of the rock groups Super Furry Animals and The Peth. Ifans also appeared as Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, and as Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man. He...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 July 1967
CityHaverfordwest, England
There is no such thing as a criminal life. Life is life, and life is criminalized. No one ever, in the history of life, has chosen a criminal life. No one has ever said, 'I want to be a criminal.' No one ever has done that.
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 think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.
I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.
Spider-Man is a school boy that's looking for his parents.
You know you are in a good film when it affects the audience.
We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.
I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.
I'm a real magpie when it comes to music; it's all random, and there's no pattern to what I like.
I go to work, and I work very hard. I'm loyal, generous, true, kind, fair - all those boxes are ticked. I'm going to Heaven.
I don't have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds. A stick can become a sword. Or a bowl of stones can become a bowl of tomatoes. That's what children do, and that's what CGI enables us to do.
When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.
Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a minute.
What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.