Jared Harris Quotes

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

  Jared Harris

  Parent, Would Be, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You get ideas from other people all the time.

  Jared Harris

  Ideas, People

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• 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.

  Jared Harris

  People, Important, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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

  Jared Harris

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• 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.

  Jared Harris

  Thinking, Important, Scare

  Source: collider.com

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

  Jared Harris

  Know Me, Knows, Ifs

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

  Jared Harris

  Television, Written

  Source: collider.com

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• People are fascinated by evil because its mysterious and it doesnt seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.

  Jared Harris

  Children, Character, People

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• I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

  Jared Harris

  Children, Dad, Father

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• I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

  Jared Harris

  Glasses, Cab Drivers, Done

  "Q&A – Jared Harris (Lane Pryce)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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

  Jared Harris

  Research, Villain, Mass

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're at drama school you spend so much time working on amazing texts and analyzing them, digging into them, and figuring out why it happens, why you are being asked to say what you're saying, and what the words mean. But then when you start working, most of the stuff would just fall apart if you subject it to that kind of scrutiny.

  Jared Harris

  Drama, Fall, School

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When preparing for a role, a month is a luxury. Sometimes you've maybe got two weeks before you start on something. So you have to learn how to do it quickly. And the longer you have a role, that it lives in your imagination, the more you're going to be able to contribute when you get on set. Because it's really about your subconscious having time to sit with the part, so you're out doing something and then something occurs to you, you know?

  Jared Harris

  Imagination, Sometimes, Week

  Source: collider.com

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• Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really.

  Jared Harris

  Love Is, Ideas, Business Deals

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Jared Harris

  People, Meals, World

  Source: collider.com

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

  Jared Harris

  Character, Normal, Casts

  "Jared Harris brings English civility to "Mad Men"". Interview with Sarah Kuhn, uk.reuters.com. July 30, 2010.

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• I keep mementos from everything I've done.

  Jared Harris

  Done, Memento, Belt Buckles

  "Q&A – Jared Harris (Lane Pryce)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. April 2012.

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

  Jared Harris

  Thinking, Work Out, Auditions

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• 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.

  Jared Harris

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Jared Harris

  Challenges, Done, Want

  Source: collider.com

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

  Jared Harris

  People, Evil, Mysterious

  "Exclusive: Jared Harris Talks THE WARD, MAD MEN, FRINGE, SHERLOCK HOLMES 2, STAR TREK, Movie Villains, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 6, 2011.

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• 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.

  Jared Harris

  Mean, Attachment, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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

  Jared Harris

  Looks, Graves, Gardener

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• 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.

  Jared Harris

  Fun, Long, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• I like the adrenaline of live performance, whatever that is, appearing in front of an audience of any kind, whether it's one or a hundred or a thousand. It gives you a buzz of adrenaline, its exciting. The thing about that is that you want to make those nerves work for you in terms of an energy that's appropriate for the part and the performance, and not to distract the people who are watching so that they become nervous for you.

  Jared Harris

  People, Giving, Energy

  Source: collider.com

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