Ioan Gruffudd quotes:

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

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've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

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.

To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

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.

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

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,

I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!

There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

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.

A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is.

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am. My character. . . My make-up. My culture and heritage is a very rich one. So what if it's difficult for people to pronounce? We all learned how to say Schwarzenegger.

It's really an organic sort of process. You start off with the character on the page. You fall in love with that character and you have to represent that character well and I think it's just an evolution there. Using the accent and speaking the lines with the accent in fact opens the door to who the character really is.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

I'm not getting younger, so there's a commitment to the cause that one has to make

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

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.

I love doing kids' films.