“Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts y...” — Jonathan Rhys Meyers Quote

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.

Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.

Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role, you don't have any friends, you're incredibly competitive and any actor who tells you different is lying.

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.

Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.

With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.

I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.

In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance.