Matthew Rhys Quotes

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

Matthew Rhys

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• People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

  

  Ed Markey
  • People
  • Money
  • Upside Down

• I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Death
  • Process
  • Still

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Worry
  • Adapt
  • Global Warming

• I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Believe
  • Care

• You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Team
  • Games

• For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Music
  • Me
  • Calling

• I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Experience
  • House
  • Man

• I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Will
  • Read
  • Reviews

• Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Human

• Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Up
  • God
  • Family

• When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Child

• The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Free
  • Chinese
  • New

• With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Up
  • Character
  • You

• When you get as old as I am, you kind of believe there's nothing new under the sun, but there's always a fresh way of looking at something. That's why I love working with young people. They remind you of things you used to know and have since forgotten.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • World
  • Music
  • American

• I got a record with Frank Ocean.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Ocean
  • Record
  • Got

• Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Bad
  • Movies

• All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Art
  • Universe

• I make fun wherever I go... If I go to a restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it. I always have a great deal of fun being with people. It's part of the journey.

  

  Cloris Leachman
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• When I think back on high school, I always tried to make silly videos with my friends.

  

  Kimiko Glenn
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • City

• I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

  

  Matthew Rhys
  • Silly
  • Farmer