Rhys Ifans Quotes

Whenever you're doing film for television and you look at the budget that you have, which is much more constricted than a movie budget, you think, "God, are they going to be able to do what they say they are?"

Rhys Ifans

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• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
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  • Enough

• To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Real
  • Play
  • Film

• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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  • Unknown

• It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Know

• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
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  • Way
  • Film

• I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
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  • Film
  • Special

• My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Film
  • Weird
  • First

• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  

  Sally Field
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  • Business
  • Comedy

• I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Moments
  • Film
  • Dialogue

• Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Hands
  • Television
  • Rules

• My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
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• It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • She
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• 'Saawariya' was my debut film. It will always be the most special film.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Always
  • Film
  • Special

• I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Film
  • Listen

• Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.

  

  Dan Butler
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• I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Die
  • Television

• I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Up
  • Television
  • Just

• A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.

  

  Oliver Gaspirtz
  • Television
  • Cat
  • Tanks

• There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family.

  

  Brett Morgen
  • Family
  • Manner
  • Kurt Cobain

• I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Friendship
  • Learned
  • Improve

• Whenever you're doing film for television and you look at the budget that you have, which is much more constricted than a movie budget, you think, "God, are they going to be able to do what they say they are?"

  

  Rhys Ifans
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  • Television