Jonathan Rhys Meyers Quotes

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.

When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.

Nobodys perfect. And if you think they are, youre sadly mistaken.

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.

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

You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.

You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

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

I'm part of the Ipod generation. I got 10,000 tracks from all over the world.

When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year.

Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.

You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.

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

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.

My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.

I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

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.

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

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

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

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

There's not much of a difference shooting something for TV and shooting something for film; the difference is film is in a cinema and TV is in your home.

You really have to keep people interested, at all times, until the punch comes. You can do that with a film that lasts 90 to 100 minutes. That's very difficult to do at 160 minutes.

You really have to work harder to come up with new ways to play the scenes.

My failures has helped me as much as my successes.

I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

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

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.

I think all actors have addictive personalities.