Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I think everybody's got a malicious side.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role, you don't have any friends, you're incredibly competitive and any actor who tells you different is lying.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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
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
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
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.