89 Quotes by Jared Harris

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.

There are many cases where the direction of the play comes from within the cast of actors, especially in terms of the choices in performance.

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

I was stuck in boarding school when I was seven years old and I knew that the only way to get out was to go pass your exams, so I studied.

I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles.

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.

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.

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

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