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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. "

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

School

People

Learning

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End

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

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I Am

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Family

Reading

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Skin

Stretching

" 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. "

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Success Is

" 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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Had