A biography for Jared Harrishasn’t been written yet.
“I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.”
“You can't love someone unless they love you back.”
“I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.”
“Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.”
“If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.”
“A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.”
“I really wanted to get out of England.”
“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.”
“Most of what I knew of George VI was from watching 'The King's Speech!'”
“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.”
“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.”
“Male actors have to lie about their ages, too.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television - or just written.”
“I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.”
“That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.”
“It's odd, because 'Mad Men' was the first long-form TV thing I ever did. I'd done loads of independent movies, but after that, it was 'TV actor.' You go, 'When did that happen? Everything else has been erased?'”
“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.”
“Pink cocktails look quite friendly. They have an umbrella in them, some sort of fruit... they look innocent, and boy, do they pack a punch.”