JONATHAN PRYCE

I have just enough public appreciation to make me happy.

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.

The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.

Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.

I'm not a star, I'm an actor - there's a difference!

I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

Hamlet' is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he's just one part of the story.

I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

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.

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.

I treasure my friends but not my possessions.

Sometimes I just want to laugh.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

I try to see some good in everyone.

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

What's great about being an actor is you meet people and form a relationship very quickly.

It was easy for me to play someone with a massive ego. It's actually really fun to have the freedom to be that person.

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

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

I've never had therapy. Maybe the work is the therapy.

One time, I had to do Edgar in 'King Lear' and Owl in 'Winnie the Pooh' on the same day.

I made a sofa that is constantly being updated the more people sit on it, or sit through it, or don't sit on it because it's so uncomfortable.