Ioan Gruffudd Quotes

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

"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."

"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!"

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

"Growing up in Wales, there was a lot of fervour about being Welsh. But the more that I travelled, I realised that people aren't always interested in where you're from, but who you are."

"The attention to detail on 'Titanic' was extraordinary."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"I love doing kids' films."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"I grew up in Aberdare and some of the nicest beaches close by were at Tenby and Saundersfoot."

"Often in my game as an actor, someone else pays for your travel and there's nothing like being able to lie flat on a flight home from L.A."

"On a trip to Cabo San Lucas, I was obsessed with Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History.' We were staying at the Esperanza hotel doing all sorts of lovely things, but I couldn't wait to get back to the book at night."

"When you're younger, you're going to be cast as the heroic, earnest leading man."

"I'm so renowned for 'Fantastic Four.'"

"I didn't work for more than two years. I sat on the couch and waited for work to come in. I got depressed, went into the abyss."

"I know what it's like when the phone doesn't ring. It's the loneliest feeling in the world."

"I'm grateful for all the experiences, even the negative ones."

"I've looked at myself on screen and thought, 'Oh, that's what I look like, I'm not 26 any more.'"

"Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering."