Ruth Jones Quotes

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Ruth Jones

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 22, 1966

We all put on very different faces in public and in private.

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The characters in 'Gavin & Stacey' do like each other.

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Every day you read these awful stories in the papers that make you want to weep. You think, 'Why has this happened?' But at the same, people can also be lovely to each other.

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I've probably been guilty of assuming people from by-gone generations were stuffy, two dimensional and a bit dull. But my trip on 'Who Do You Think You Are?' has proved the opposite to be true.

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I don't want to make generalisations here, but I think that most women and maybe men are not comfortable with being overweight. It's a tricky issue.

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All my life I've had this belief that other people are better than me.

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Before 'Gavin & Stacey' I'd won a BBC short-story competition.

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I'm a hugely proud Welsh person. I just love it - it's something very special, being Welsh.

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I wouldn't go out of my way to go to a big celebrity bash. You have to make an effort to dress up and I'm a bit lazy really.

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I can't be bothered to put make-up on - I certainly don't wear it day to day.

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I just don't do the celebrity hangout thing.

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If you'd asked me when I was younger what life would be like in my 50s, I'd probably have imagined someone like my grandmother. I'd have looked like a little old lady who went for a shampoo and set every week. But it's funny - when you get to your 50s it's not like that at all because apart from a few aches and pains, I feel like I'm in my 30s.

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I really love 'The Windsors' - and I hope the royal family love it, too.

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I loved character actresses like Julie Walters and Alison Steadman, films like 'Nuts in May' and 'Educating Rita.' And I never get tired of watching Larry David and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'

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I adore all the 'Planet of the Apes' films.

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I adored 'The Young Ones,' then I grew into 'French and Saunders' and Victoria Wood.

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Fleabag' is genius: there's something so brave about a character voicing what we're all thinking but are too embarrassed to say.

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I think comedy drama is a tricky one. But it's like in real life: often really tense, dramatic situations can be punctuated with the mundane and banal, and that's what we try to capture in 'Stella.'

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