Quotes from 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.

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.

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

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.

I think everybody's got a malicious side.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.

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

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

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