Jared Harris

“Moving outside of your comfort zone is one thing I learned from my training as an actor in England.”

“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!”

“I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.”

“I do love pink cocktails.”

“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.”

“I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.”

“Here in England, my becoming an actor was considered unimaginative.”

“I met Peter O'Toole for the first time at Dad's memorial service because my Dad didn't hang around with people like that when we were around. We didn't grow up with Richard Burton coming around to tea.”

“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.”

“We all have our moments where we fail to live up to a challenge.”

“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.”

“If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.”

“I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'”

“You always hope that people will fall in love with the characters you play, the way you do yourself.”

“The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.”

“I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.”

“'Mad Men' is a hard act to follow. Unless you're called Elisabeth Moss, stuff like this only comes along once in your career.”

“You get ideas from other people all the time.”

“One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a camera, they respond as if it was actually happening, in real time, rather than doing it after several takes.”

“It's very hard to connect with a character when you haven't gotten a sense of who they are.”