Jared Harris Quotes
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If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.
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I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.
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I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.
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I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'
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It's odd, because 'Mad Men' was the first long-form TV thing I ever did. I'd done loads of independent movies, but after that, it was 'TV actor.' You go, 'When did that happen? Everything else has been erased?'
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Here in England, my becoming an actor was considered unimaginative.
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Moving outside of your comfort zone is one thing I learned from my training as an actor in England.
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I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.
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I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.
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My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.
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You get ideas from other people all the time.
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A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.
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I like challenges.
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The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.
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The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.
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You can't love someone unless they love you back.
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Pink cocktails look quite friendly. They have an umbrella in them, some sort of fruit... they look innocent, and boy, do they pack a punch.
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Dad was never a Mr. Mum-type of person who'd stay at home. It was a big thing when he was home - he was a circus.
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It's very hard to connect with a character when you haven't gotten a sense of who they are.
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Male actors have to lie about their ages, too.
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It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.
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Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television - or just written.