Ioan Quotes

#1. 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

#2. More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction.

Greg Van Eekhout

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. -Do you think it's dirty money?
-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.

Charles Duhigg

#10. I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

Muhammad Ali

#11. 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

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

Ioan Gruffudd

#13. I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

Ioan Gruffudd

#14. It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

Matthew Ashford

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

Ioan Gruffudd

#16. The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.

Jason Statham

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

Ioan Gruffudd

#18. 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

#19. I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

Ioan Gruffudd

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.

Ioan Gruffudd

#24. And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!

Ioan Gruffudd

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.

Martin Heidegger

#29. Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want.

Laurie Frankel

#30. I love doing kids' films.

Ioan Gruffudd

#31. I'm not getting younger, so there's a commitment to the cause that one has to make

Ioan Gruffudd