A biography for Jonathan Rhys Meyershasn’t been written yet.
“I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.”
“Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.”
“Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.”
“No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.”
“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.”
“I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.”
“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.”
“I take care of myself so I don't feel insecure about my body.”
“My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.”
“I'm a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot - it's my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person.”
“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.”
“The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.”
“I didn't use a phone until I was 14.”
“My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.”
“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.”
“I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.”
“I actually live very, very simply.”
“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 want to do really good things with my life.”
“When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.”