Jared Harris Quotes

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

You get ideas from other people all the time.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

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.

I really wanted to get out of England.

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.

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

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

When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

Normally death scenes are good, if you have a significant death scene and it means something it's like the audience has an attachment to you being killed that's a good thing.

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

You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

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

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.