Jonathan Pryce Quotes

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Jonathan Pryce

Profession : Actor

Birth : June 1, 1947

It was very amusing to do 'GI Joe: Retaliation' scenes with Bruce Willis, who spends months rewriting his dialogue and then turns up and doesn't say it. Part of the time, he doesn't say anything, but mumbles and mutters.

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I treasure my friends but not my possessions.

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I can tell stories to other actors about the level of aggression on stage in the '70s between actors - it was unbelievable.

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As a child, play, drawing, and painting were important to me - they still are.

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I'd rather be Welsh than English, that's for sure.

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When you sing on stage, the songs are part of the narrative, but in 'Unconditional Love,' it was just singing for singing's sake. It was playing at being pop star. As a young boy growing up in North Wales, that was my fantasy.

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I cry very easily.

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I try to see some good in everyone.

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Sometimes I just want to laugh.

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You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.

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When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater.

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I remember watching 'Fargo.' I thought that was cruel. 'GoodFellas,' lots of Scorsese stuff, I think is unnecessarily violent and almost a celebration of violence. I don't see 'Game of Thrones' as being a celebratory violence.

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