Iwan Quotes

#1. I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've got older I've chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!

Iwan Rheon

#2. It's a weird thing with accents. When I go home it gets a lot stronger, when I've had a few beers it gets a lot stronger.

Iwan Rheon

#3. The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history

Carl T. Rowan

#4. In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.

Iwan Bloch

#5. When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

Iwan Rheon

#6. Lying is not a sin, since there has never been a law-maker or philosopher who could determine what truth is. I lie for the fun of it. I lie for the fear of the gravity of life. I lie out of boredom. How can anyone who has more fantasy than the Catholic evening paper get by without lying?

Iwan Goll

#7. I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in people's faces. I want to keep it relaxed.

Iwan Rheon

#8. Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you're up there on your own, it's quite scary and revealing because you're playing your own songs. It's like a one man show that you've written yourself.

Iwan Rheon

#9. The smile is civilization's finest adornment. It signifies the willpower and duty to fashion mankind's coexistence as quietly and agreeably as possible so that it will always appear friendly. For it is all a matter of appearance. The smile is culture's diploma: it is the diplomat's badge.

Iwan Goll

#10. When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.

Iwan Rheon

#11. The music is mine. Theres nothing to hide behind. Thats where you see the real person.

Iwan Rheon

#12. A tiny company, 'the aware', we have taken up civilization's fiercest weapons to fight against the dark army of the masses whose leaders are hunger and stupidity. These weapons are the smile and the lie.

Iwan Goll

#13. I can imagine if there's nothing in my pocket, but i can't imagine if there's no knowledge in my mind and religion in my heart.
They are my other suns in my life.

Iwan Setyawan

#14. I have no ambitions to be a pop star.

Iwan Rheon

#15. The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

Mason Cooley

#16. The first CD I had was 'Definitely Maybe' by Oasis, and I had a tape of' 'Parklife' by Blur when I was nine.

Iwan Rheon

#17. I started off from a very early age listening to music - all the usual cheesy stuff that little kids like.

Iwan Rheon

#18. When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

Simone De Beauvoir

#19. I'm always drawn towards the darker stuff, because I think it's just a lot more interesting. But it's also good fun doing the comedy, and I think that's why 'Misfits' has been great in that way, as you get a really good balance. I think it's best to try and do everything as an actor, really.

Iwan Rheon

#20. It's hard to change someone's ideas when they might not even really consciously know that they're being racist, or have racist ideas, just because ballet has been this way for hundreds of years.

Misty Copeland

#21. I think drama school really teaches you how to annunciate; you're conscious that people might not understand you if you speak too fast and too Welsh.

Iwan Rheon

#22. The characters I tend to play are a little more interesting than the standard heroes. Romantic leads can be a little more straightforward, I guess. But it just seems to be the parts I get, I don't know what that says about me. I enjoy interesting characters and interesting people, I suppose.

Iwan Rheon

#23. The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!

Max Elliott Slade

#24. Chaos reigned, and the survivalists eagerly unwrapped the kidskin from their crossbows.
Phase one of Opal's plan was complete.

Eoin Colfer

#25. I listen to a lot of reggae.

Iwan Rheon

#26. In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

Rowan Williams

#27. Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.

Kato Lomb

#28. I don't want to put any pressure on the music; it's my hobby and my release - a thing that I love.

Iwan Rheon

#29. I walked past Noel Gallagher on the street once and everyone was like, "Go speak to him! He's one of your heroes!" I thought I'd leave him. I don't know what I'd say to him.

Iwan Rheon

#30. I was a huge Radiohead fan growing up.

Iwan Rheon

#31. Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.

Iwan Goll

#32. I wasn't, you know, Mr. Popular. I was somewhere in the middle ground. I was quite alternative, the things I liked to do. Skateboarding, at the time. Playing in a band as opposed to playing in the rugby team. You know, that kind of thing.

Iwan Rheon

#33. There was so much great music around in the '60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.

Iwan Rheon

#34. When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.

Iwan Rheon

#35. Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.

Iwan Rheon