Jonathan Rhys Meyers Quotes
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.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
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It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.
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I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.
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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.
