Jonathan Rhys Meyers Quotes
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I'm a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot - it's my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person.
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I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.
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When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.
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I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.
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My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I didn't use a phone until I was 14.
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No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.
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I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.
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I take care of myself so I don't feel insecure about my body.
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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.
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My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.
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I want to do really good things with my life.
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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.
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If another actor gets a good role, I'm furious.
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I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.
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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.
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The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.
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I think everybody's got a malicious side.
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I actually live very, very simply.