Wales Quotes

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.
Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything.
What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.
When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.
Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?
Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.
You get yourself prepared for a big game, you get yourself up for it. Then afterwards you don't sleep or eat properly.
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.
And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
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.
As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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.
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.
Had you met me when I was 18 I was very, very patriotic almost to the point of sounding a little bit bigoted or racist, but then I moved away, came to London, my eyes were opened and I saw the world.
Having kids, you can't function with a hangover.
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 defy any British actor to deny they've not stood in front of the mirror and said: 'Bond, James Bond.'
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 grew up in Aberdare and some of the nicest beaches close by were at Tenby and Saundersfoot.
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.
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Alan Cranston
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19 June, 1914
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31 December, 2000
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