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" 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. "

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Day

Doing

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Reality

You

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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Lunch

Had

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Ambition

End

" I want to do really good things with my life. "

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Myself

I Am

" My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story. "

" 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

Skin

Stretching

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

" I think all actors have addictive personalities. "

" 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

Long

School

" 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. "

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

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Family

Reading

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Little

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