Top 22 Jonathan Rhys Meyers Quotes

I actually live very, very simply.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I want to do really good things with my life.

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

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.

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

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.

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

If another actor gets a good role, I’m furious.

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

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.

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.

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