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Jared Harris is a distinguished British actor born on August 24, 1961, in London. The son of legendary actor Richard Harris and actress Elizabeth Rees-Williams, he has established himself as one of Britain's most respected performers. He gained international recognition for his Emmy-winning performance as Valery Legasov in HBO's 'Chernobyl' and has appeared in numerous acclaimed films and television series including 'The Crown,' 'Mad Men,' 'Sherlock Holmes,' and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.'

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

People Ifs Needs Persons Important Roles Convince Right Person

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“I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change. It's sort of at the same ratio of stuff you audition for to things you land.”

Stuff Land Rate Auditions Ratios

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

Knows Wells Long Film Fun Realizing Natural Long Time Hollywood Caught Disaster Natural Disaster Good Fun

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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.”

Ifs Mean Audience Scene Good Things Significant Attachment

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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.”

People Knows World Week Slave Meals Customs

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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.”

Ifs Want Done Challenges Involved Repeats Filmmaking Challenge Yourself

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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.”

Ifs Want Writing Persons Real Character Use Color Shapes Versions Real Person

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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.”

Written Television

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“Often in films there's more of allowing the actors to make the dialogue fit better in their own. Also, you get to a location and the geography is different, so the lines don't line up the right way, so you do have to change stuff.”

Way Different Film Actors Stuff Lines Fit Dialogue Allowing Location Right Way Geography

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“One of the things that I was interested in about Moriarty was - he's so manipulative that he doesn't need to commit violence himself or kill people - he can get everyone to do what he needs to do. And sometimes they don't even know that they are being manipulated by him.”

People Knows Needs Sometimes Violence Commit Manipulative Moriarty

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

Mass Research Villain Super Villain

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

People Seems Evil Behinds Rational Mysterious Fascinated

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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?”

Sometimes Imagination Week Subconscious

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“Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.”

Done Regret Involved I Regret

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

Would Be Lost Parent Roles Argument Casts Lawyer

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“I really wanted to get out of England.”

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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.'”

Ifs Thinking Remember Work Out Auditions

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

Thinking Actors Fun Acceptance Speech Showers Acceptance Speech

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

Character Normal Casts

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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.”

Ifs Knows Know Me

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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.”

Knows Children Kids Remember Young Actors Father Interest Loses Television Dad My Dad Australian Entertainers

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“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!”

Done Shows Dying Scene Brilliant

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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.”

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“I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.”

Wanted School Lasts Waiting Taught England Boring Awful Get Away Monk

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“You get ideas from other people all the time.”

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

Thinking Play Character

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

Ifs Looks Graves Grants Gardener

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“My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.”

Children Mother Father Deals Our Children Catholic Your Children Sanctions

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“I keep mementos from everything I've done.”

Done Memento Belt Buckles

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About the Author

Born: August 24, 1961
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 34

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