Jonathan Rhys Meyers Quotes
My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.
Quotes to Explore
-
I always played to win.
-
My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
-
I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
-
I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
-
I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
-
I don't care about revenues.
-
The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
-
Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
-
The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
-
The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
-
The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
-
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
-
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
-
Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
-
When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
-
I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
-
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
-
I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.
-
I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
-
Artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
-
I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes everything - your mother, your father, your everything. You are dependent on the church.
-
I love to watch 'Hoarders.' My grandmother was a hoarder. My mother's on her way. I'm an electronics hoarder - I won't throw any out. I still have my first T-Mobile Sidekick... old VCRs in my garage. It scares me that I'm going to end up being buried under electronics.
-
My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that.
-
My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.
