Latest Jared Harris Quotes from Interviews

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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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

  Jared Harris

  Different, Actors, Lines

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Jared Harris

  People, Needs, Violence

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Jared Harris

  Land, Ratios, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• 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

• 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