Jared Harris Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't 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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I really wanted to get out of England.”

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

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

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

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