Jared Harris Quotes

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Jared Harris

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 24, 1961

I personally am not religious. I think, put into the wrong hands, it's incredibly dangerous. It's the reason for most of the wars that have been fought around the world, and it's pretty ridiculous when you think about what they're actually arguing over.

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When you're playing someone who drinks a lot, it's not that interesting to play that condition because as soon as you know that, you got all the information you're going to get from it. It's like hitting the same note on the piano over and over again.

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After 'Mad Men,' I got offered various types of uptight Englishmen, which I wasn't interested in doing. I didn't want to repeat myself.

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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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If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.

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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.

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Here in England, my becoming an actor was considered unimaginative.

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I met Peter O'Toole for the first time at Dad's memorial service because my Dad didn't hang around with people like that when we were around. We didn't grow up with Richard Burton coming around to tea.

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One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a camera, they respond as if it was actually happening, in real time, rather than doing it after several takes.

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I miss 'Mad Men,' but I can't complain because I got a lot of public awareness from it, and it led on to film offers such as 'Sherlock.'

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You always hope that people will fall in love with the characters you play, the way you do yourself.

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I do love pink cocktails.

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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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A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.

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That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

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Most of what I knew of George VI was from watching 'The King's Speech!'

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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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Male actors have to lie about their ages, too.

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You can't love someone unless they love you back.

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