Explore Quotes by Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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.

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

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.

My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.

I didn't use a phone until I was 14.

I take care of myself so I don't feel insecure about my body.

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

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 like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

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.

No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.

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.

Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken.

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'm a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot - it's my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person.

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.

When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.

I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.

Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.

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.