Top 100 Quotes About Rhys

#1. Blot out the moon,
Pull down the stars.
Love in the dark, for we're for the dark
So soon, so soon.

Jean Rhys

#2. The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you're lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you're playing, I'd say, 'It's obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.'

Rhys Ifans

#3. Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

John Rhys-Davies

#4. If this is a sad story, don't tell it to me tonight.'It is not sad,' she said. 'Only some things happen and are there for always even though you forget why or when.

Jean Rhys

#5. I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#6. 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.

Rhys Ifans

#7. I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

Jean Rhys

#8. I think I can relate to this guy [Psycho Sam] that ended up ... This desire to go off the grid and live on his own and didn't trust anyone or anything and I guess the thing that saved him in my head was that he had a great sense of humor.

Rhys Darby

#9. What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

Jean Rhys

#10. I have a 10 year old boy and a 6 year old boy and the stuff that they watch, it's always ... I mean, it could be because we're a funny family, but they love the humor and combining humor with space action, I mean, you know, there's a winner right there.

Rhys Darby

#11. Thor is a legend after all and if you're getting a legend back, you've got to get the Darby in.

Rhys Darby

#12. Her waist goes in , her hips come out, her long black hair is coiled into a smooth bun on the top of her round head. She is very restful to the tired eye.

Jean Rhys

#13. Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.

Matthew Rhys

#14. You wear your armor even to dinner, Lady Wilhelmina?"
"Of course I wear armor. I am sitting with a pirate, a mercenary, an adventurer, and a bounder. If a shot is not fired tonight, I daresay that your reputations are nothing but lies.

Meljean Brook

#15. I'm a sporadic reader. I have moments when I can't stop ... then I kind of forget that I can read. But then I go, 'Oh God, yeah, books!'

Rhys Ifans

#16. It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe.

Jean Rhys

#17. Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#18. I've known I've needed you since forever." Wolf cut him off with a whisper dropped into Tristan's ear. "It just took me a bit to finally meet you.

Rhys Ford

#19. I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flickered to life in his eyes. "Always," he promised, kissing my brow, his wings now enveloping me completely. "Always.

Sarah J. Maas

#20. You can't stay young forever. Being young is a privilege. God knows, how many of them in their death bed wished to be young again and they regretted all the things they should have and should not have done.

Diyar Harraz

#21. I love the stage. I'm always sniffing around to see if there's something I can squidge in quickly.

Matthew Rhys

#22. One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

Jean Rhys

#23. Baby, you're so much of a woman, you turn me off when I hold you.

Rhys Ford

#24. She lifted her eyes. Blank, lovely eyes. Mad eyes. A mad girl.

Jean Rhys

#25. Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

John Rhys-Davies

#26. Only the magic and the dream are true - all the rest's a lie.

Jean Rhys

#27. It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?

Jean Rhys

#28. Wasn't it quite difficult being a wicked girl? Even more difficult than being a good one?

Jean Rhys

#29. There's nothing like the discipline of having to work on a cold film set on the Danubian plain in Bulgaria. Boy, does it get cold.

John Rhys-Davies

#30. Better not I tell you. You want to know what I do? I say doudou, if you have trouble you are right to come to me. And I kiss her. It's when I kiss her she cry - not before.

Jean Rhys

#31. You know what rumors are like-like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they're all over the place.

Rhys Bowen

#32. The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

John Rhys-Davies

#33. That's all you're waiting for, isn't it? But no, you must have the slow death, the bloodless killing that leaves no stain on your conscience ...

Jean Rhys

#34. My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

Rhys Ifans

#35. I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#36. It took me a long while to realize that Rhysand, whether he knew it or not, had effectively kept me from shattering completely.

Sarah J. Maas

#37. Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Jean Rhys

#38. No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#39. I think Psycho Sam is closer to the real me in some ways which is frightening to admit, but I guess ... I mean, I'm definitely into the paranormal.

Rhys Darby

#40. The haunting and haunted remnants of an abandoned world. And in Darius's arms each night, when reason returned and they lay together, drained and weary, Rhys decided there was something inescapably beautiful about the fact that they made these memories in ruined places.

Amelia C. Gormley

#41. I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am.

Sarah J. Maas

#42. I want to do really good things with my life.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#43. The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary.

Rhys Bowen

#44. I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn't really care.

Jean Rhys

#45. Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up ...

Jean Rhys

#46. Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tackle that shed, not for any price she could afford. But crying relieved her and she soon felt quite cheerful again. It was ridiculous to brood, she told herself.

Jean Rhys

#47. 'Shogun' was a mini-series, so even though it went on television, we filmed it like a movie.

John Rhys-Davies

#48. You ain't no plastic doll, boy," he growled, inches away from Rhys's lips. "You just need to be handled right.

Amelia C. Gormley

#49. How about if you turn over, baby?" Wolf licked his way up Tristan's back to nibble at the spot between his shoulder blades. "And we can take turns working our way through these condoms my mom brought us.

Rhys Ford

#50. I try, but they always see through me. The passages will never lead anywhere, the doors will always be shut.

Jean Rhys

#51. Freyre! someone roared. No, not someone - Rhysand.

Sarah J. Maas

#52. I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible.

John Rhys-Davies

#53. Did you have a pleasant ride?" she asked softly, watching as Kathleen introduced Devon to Lady Berwick.
"Which ride are you referring to?" His tone was so bland that at first she didn't perceive his implication.
Helen shot him a shocked glance. "Don't be wicked," she whispered.

Lisa Kleypas

#54. At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.

Jean Rhys

#55. And I'll look back at him because I shan't be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I've ever loved, and every time I've been happy.

Jean Rhys

#56. If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.

John Rhys-Davies

#57. I will write my name in fire red.

Jean Rhys

#58. Wasn't it odd how children could be so fascinated by magic? It took them time and the lessons of the Chantry to learn real fear.

David Gaider

#59. When trouble comes, close ranks

Jean Rhys

#60. I think when I'm cast in things, people take that as part of the package that I would like to have some sort of creative control and they know what I'm capable of, so they let me come on the day with my own ammunition.

Rhys Darby

#61. I wanted it-like iron.

Jean Rhys

#62. Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed.

Rhys Ifans

#63. I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#64. If I could choose I would rather be happy than write.

Jean Rhys

#65. I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.

Rhys Ifans

#66. It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#67. I love to see your eyes sparkle like they do when you get all feisty. The flush in your cheeks." His voice lowered. "The way you draw in a deep breath and it pushes your tits out so beautifully. You're incredibly sexy when you're mad.

Sibylla Matilde

#68. He'd never sat vigil for someone before - didn't know what he was supposed to do other than wait. And lust for the man sitting by his side. As if Death weren't enough to fight off, the world had to go and throw Desire into the fray as well.

Rhys Ford

#69. 'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I got sciatica. That's when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves.

John Rhys-Davies

#70. I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

Rhys Ifans

#71. I do what I can, but I'll always give it a shot. You're not going to see me playing a Welsh character any time soon, not because I wouldn't love to. I went up to Wales once and read for a film with Rhys Ifans, and haven't been asked back since. We did have a nice time on the train on the way back.

Aidan Gillen

#72. I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

Rhys Ifans

#73. I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself more in roles emotionally.

Rhys Ifans

#74. I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.

Jean Rhys

#75. ...if you care - at all - you need to think long and hard about how you spend the rest of your time here. Don't fuck up my girl.

Sibylla Matilde

#76. We can't really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.

Rhys Bezzant

#77. And I said, "You love me?" Rhys nodded. And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he'd done for me. For what I felt for him. I set the bowl down before him. "Then eat.

Sarah J. Maas

#78. A snap of Rhys's fingers, and my nightclothes - and some flimsy underthings - appeared on the bed. "I couldn't decide which scrap of lace I wanted you to wear, so I brought you a few to choose from."
"Pig," I barked

Sarah J. Maas

#79. Every species has its pub.

Rhys Ifans

#80. Saved, rescued, fished-up, half-drowned, out of the deep, dark river, dry clothes, hair shampooed and set. Nobody would know I had ever been in it.

Jean Rhys

#81. I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.

Jean Rhys

#82. That expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

Jean Rhys

#83. Follow yer heart, because no matter where it takes ye, the journey is worth it - especially if it's love.

Rhys Ford

#84. You should never play safe with your heart. It doesn't get to grow if you don't take it out. You break it. You give it away. And sometimes, you kind of hope someone gives it back to you - maybe wrapped up and taped but better because they held it for a little while.

Rhys Ford

#85. All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

Jean Rhys

#86. Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.

John Rhys-Davies

#87. I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#88. I can't sleep,' he said. 'Let me lie with my head on your silver breast.

Jean Rhys

#89. I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#90. Rosalind: "So you don't want me either?" Rosalind flung up her hands. "Good! Because I am tiered of dealing with men. I really don't need any of you!"
Rhys: "That's the spirit, my lady. Keep that up and we'll all be wishing you to the devil very shortly.

Kate Pearce

#91. Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Jean Rhys

#92. Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

John Rhys-Davies

#93. In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

Rhys Ifans

#94. 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.

Rhys Ifans

#95. To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.

John Rhys-Davies

#96. Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

Jean Rhys

#97. I'm a little smarter than most.

John Rhys-Davies

#98. I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).

Jean Rhys

#99. I hate being out of work!

John Rhys-Davies

#100. Armed with a comb and a brush, Dante parted his uncle's thick hair and began to dab hair dye along the line.

Rhys Ford

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