Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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.Collection: Relationship
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.
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.
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 everybody's got a malicious side.
I take care of myself so I don't feel insecure about my body.
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.
When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.
The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.
I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.
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.
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.
I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.
I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.
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.
No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.
My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.
I didn't use a phone until I was 14.
I think all actors have addictive personalities.
I'm a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot - it's my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person.
I want to do really good things with my life.
A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.
If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.
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.
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 don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.
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.
My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.
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'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 can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.
If another actor gets a good role, I'm furious.
I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.
I actually live very, very simply.
Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken.
Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.
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 it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.Collection: Dream
Nobodys perfect. And if you think they are, youre sadly mistaken.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Successful
You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.Collection: People
You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.Collection: Hurt
I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.Collection: Real
I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.Collection: Thinking
I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.Collection: Jealous
You can give the greatest performance possible, but if you don't have a director who's pointing the camera in the right direction and an editor who's editing it properly, it doesn't matter what you do. The director and the editor are the most important people. Not the actors. Sometimes the writer is important. But if you don't have a good director, you can't have a good production.Collection: People
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.Collection: Strong
With a director it's all about the work; I'd work with a great director over - you know, I'm not the kind of actor who that doesn't go, 'I want to play this role.' It's more like, 'I want to work with this director,' regardless of what the role is because if it's a good director, you'll probably find a good role because it's a decent film. But a mediocre director will always make a mediocre movie.Collection: Kind
I think what qualitiy make for good directors is being able to articulate what you want; it can cause problems with a lack of communication. I'm not an actor who requires much talking to a director, I don't want to sit down and discuss a scene for hours and hours; that would bore me.Collection: Communication
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.Collection: Kids