Jonathan Rhys Meyers Quotes

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 27, 1977

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.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I think everybody's got a malicious side.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I completely believe that I will produce my best work and my best work will come in my thirties.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I want to do really good things with my life.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers