Jonathan Rhys Meyers Quotes

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.

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

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 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 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.

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 actually live very, very simply.

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.

I want to do really good things with my life.

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

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.

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.

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken.

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

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.