89 Quotes by Jared Harris

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.

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.

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.

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.

Often in films there’s more of allowing the actors to make the dialogue fit better in their own. Also, you get to a location and the geography is different, so the lines don’t line up the right way, so you do have to change stuff.

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.

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

I audition for stuff all the time, and what’s weird about it is that one’s success rate at auditioning doesn’t really change. It’s sort of at the same ratio of stuff you audition for to things you land.

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