89 Quotes by Jared Harris

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!

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

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

If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use that to shape it and color it, but it’s someone else’s version of that character. You’re not actually playing the real person.

I keep mementos from everything I’ve done.

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

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

If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I think it’s important to keep auditioning. I think it’s important to scare yourself; to take parts that are outside of your comfort zone.

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