Jonathan Rhys Meyers Quotations

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all -- other people do.

The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.

A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.

You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.

I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.

Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role, you don't have any friends, you're incredibly competitive and any actor who tells you different is lying.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

I'm a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot - it's my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person.

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

Nobodys perfect. And if you think they are, youre sadly mistaken.

When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.

I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.

Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.

I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.

My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.

I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.

I want to do really good things with my life.

Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.

Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.

Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business.

My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.

It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.

I didn't use a phone until I was 14.

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

I take care of myself so I don't feel insecure about my body.

If another actor gets a good role, I'm furious.

I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.

I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.

When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year.

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I’m crap at what I do. I think they’ll figure out I’m crap. Doesn’t everybody have that feeling?

I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

I'm part of the Ipod generation. I got 10,000 tracks from all over the world.

I could sing and play as well. I've got some brothers; one of them is the drummer in the band. They're good musicians. I play for fun. They play properly. Music in general, I grew up in a house of musicians. Everybody's life has a soundtrack, I'm sitting here talking to you but there are horns beeping outside. I know I'm in New York. That's an element in the film as well. How strong that sense can be.

When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.

You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.