Aneurin Barnard Quotes

I do my own stunts; that’s something I’m very passionate about. I spent a lot of time on boats as a kid, so it’s just nice to be able to put that into use in the job that I do.

It’s a really good format to have, to go back to theatre and build yourself as an actor. I think it’s a great skill to go from screen to stage.

It’s so much nicer to be able to do your job with someone who‘s helping you, and you’re helping them. Then, it becomes a tennis match where you’re hitting the ball back and forth, and you’re a team.

That’s acting for you. ‘White Queen‘ has English playing Welsh and vice versa.

I never like to stick to one media; whether it’s a TV series or feature film, I enjoy it and I like changing constantly.

In ‘Citadel,’ I play a very young father. When I first signed onto ‘Hunky Dory,’ I was actually 18 years old.

The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I’m never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something or be in a new genre because, one, it’s much more fun to do that because you’re not doing the same thing over and over.

Fame isn’t happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You’ve got to work hard to be noticed.

I love doing my own stunts. I’d love to do a full-on period sword-fighting piece where I get to show off with fighting and horses – I’m up for it.

I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

Different films, different genres show the different things I do. It’s nice because it brings different groups of people to following what I’m doing. So hopefully, it kind of reiterates that I’m not just a one-trick pony as well.

I wanted to be a stuntman. I’ve done stunts since I was 11, and wanted to be able to do them whatever kind of work I ended up in. I’ve had a horse roll on me, but luckily, everything stayed intact.

All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad‘s work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

Would still love to do something with the ‘Doctor Who‘ franchise at some point because I know they have a lot of fun.

I think, as a generation of British actors, we’re becoming a bit soft and too manipulated by the business.

One thing I learnt was that you don’t have to spend all day shooting: you can get it done in half an hour if you’re that talented as a cameraman.

I tend to invest a little more than I should when I do musicals, so it takes a lot out of me and my personal life.

A friend of mine once, when I was 11 years old, mentioned that there was a youth theater, a local amateur youth theater nearby where young people could go every Sunday. And that’s where it began, really.

I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

I was really bored in school because I couldn’t do what I wanted to do, which was act. And then when I was 14, a local TV company came to the youth theater, and they were auditioning kids to be in this new TV series.

Award ceremonies are strange because you’re sitting next to someone you’ve never met; you’re celebrating with a total stranger.

If you have 130 people on set, all with different opinions, sometimes it’s going to kick off. There might be some people who say I’m a big problem to work with – that you couldn’t tell me anything – but hopefully, they don’t.

I like being on a set where you can make decisions and everything is involved and are happy to work together to make the best work. For me, it’s all about making the best work and creative people working together and all being respected and all having their opinions of what gives it the best quality is important.

I’ve picked a camera up a few times. I remember buying my first camera when I was about 18 and really going wild with it, as you do as an 18-year-old, especially when you’re in college.

I remember watching ‘A Streetcar Named Desire‘ when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, ‘Wow. That is pretty cool. I’d like to do something like that.’

I know straight away if there are roles I don’t want to do, and I have a lot of arguments with my agents about those.

I try to look after myself, but I don’t think it’s a good thing to be obsessed with body image. I wouldn’t want a son or daughter of mine to feel manipulated by that; it’s the wrong message.

Love every role to be new, and I always like to bring a freshness to every character I play, but that comes down to the script. So, it’s important that it’s a good script with good, truthful characters and truthful subjects.

For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I’ve got so many: Peter O’Toole, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Reed. If they got ‘Hunky Dory’ and ‘Citadel’ offered to them, they would do completely different jobs on both of them.