I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity. Jonathan Rhys Meyers More Quotes by Jonathan Rhys Meyers More Quotes From 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 guy trying thinking 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 funny-things successful people When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them. Jonathan Rhys Meyers dream may way My failures has helped me as much as my successes. 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 cocoons skins trying I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end. Jonathan Rhys Meyers jealous ambition thinking I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring. Jonathan Rhys Meyers hollywood party stars You really have to work harder to come up with new ways to play the scenes. Jonathan Rhys Meyers work-harder hard-work scene Nobodys perfect. And if you think they are, youre sadly mistaken. Jonathan Rhys Meyers mistaken perfect thinking You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most. Jonathan Rhys Meyers it-hurts hurt 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. Jonathan Rhys Meyers sunday house morning 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. Jonathan Rhys Meyers difficult film people You can give the greatest performance possible, but if you don't have a director who's pointing the camera in the right direction and an editor who's editing it properly, it doesn't matter what you do. The director and the editor are the most important people. Not the actors. Sometimes the writer is important. But if you don't have a good director, you can't have a good production. Jonathan Rhys Meyers important giving people You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism. Jonathan Rhys Meyers people 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 growing-up dream kids 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. Jonathan Rhys Meyers film home I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes. Jonathan Rhys Meyers real hero play I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it. Jonathan Rhys Meyers hanging-out my-family reading 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 workaholic gym persons With a director it's all about the work; I'd work with a great director over - you know, I'm not the kind of actor who that doesn't go, 'I want to play this role.' It's more like, 'I want to work with this director,' regardless of what the role is because if it's a good director, you'll probably find a good role because it's a decent film. But a mediocre director will always make a mediocre movie. Jonathan Rhys Meyers mediocre film kind
