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" I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.' "
Jared Harris
Never
Work
Thinking
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" I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest. "
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You
" The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other. "
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" I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role. "
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Argument
Lost
" I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene! "
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Death
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Love
" I personally am not religious. I think, put into the wrong hands, it's incredibly dangerous. It's the reason for most of the wars that have been fought around the world, and it's pretty ridiculous when you think about what they're actually arguing over. "
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" I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again. "
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Over
" Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in. "
Jared Harris
Involved
Regret
Movies
" People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane. "
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People
Character
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" When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them. "
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Acting
Emotions
People
" I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively. "
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Character
Play
You
" After 'Mad Men,' I got offered various types of uptight Englishmen, which I wasn't interested in doing. I didn't want to repeat myself. "
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Doing
Got
Want
" I really wanted to get out of England. "
Jared Harris
Wanted
England
Get
" My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics. "
Jared Harris
Mother
Marriage
Father
" I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage. "
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Happiness
Glasses
Done
" I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun. "
Jared Harris
Fun
Actor
Think
" It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor. "
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People
Work
You
" You get ideas from other people all the time. "
Jared Harris
Time
Get
Ideas
" I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles. "
Jared Harris
Think
Ghost
Good
" I used to do lots of independent films and for a while I was very content living in New York City and doing independent movies and off-Broadway theater. I loved it, I had a really good time doing that, and I worked on a lot of projects that are very dear to my heart, both plays and films. "
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Good
Heart
Loved
" Dad was never a Mr. Mum-type of person who'd stay at home. It was a big thing when he was home - he was a circus. "
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Person
Never
Big
" When you're playing someone who drinks a lot, it's not that interesting to play that condition because as soon as you know that, you got all the information you're going to get from it. It's like hitting the same note on the piano over and over again. "
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Information
Know
You
" 'Mad Men' is a hard act to follow. Unless you're called Elisabeth Moss, stuff like this only comes along once in your career. "
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Mad
You
Men
" I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast. "
Jared Harris
Cast
Normal
Never