Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jonathan Rhys Meyersis an Irish actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Velvet Goldmine, Mission Impossible III, Bend It Like Beckham, Match Point and his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries Elvis, which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor, and as King Henry VIII in the historical drama The Tudors. He has been the face model for several Hugo Boss fragrances advertising campaigns...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth27 July 1977
CountryIreland
You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.
I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.
I'm part of the Ipod generation. I got 10,000 tracks from all over the world.
I didn't use a phone until I was 14.
I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.
I'm a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot - it's my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person.
A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.
If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.
When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year.
No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.
If another actor gets a good role, I'm furious.
I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.
I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.
The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.