Jared Harris

Most of what I knew of George VI was from watching 'The King's Speech!'

— Jared Harris

When preparing for a role, a month is a luxury. Sometimes you've maybe got two weeks before you start on something. So…

— Jared Harris

When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long…

— Jared Harris

I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on…

— Jared Harris

'Mad Men' is a hard act to follow. Unless you're called Elisabeth Moss, stuff like this only comes along once in your…

— Jared Harris

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

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…

— Jared Harris

Here in England, my becoming an actor was considered unimaginative.

— Jared Harris

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.

— Jared Harris

One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front…

— Jared Harris

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…

— Jared Harris

It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility…

— Jared Harris

If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use…

— Jared Harris

I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on,…

— Jared Harris

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and…

— Jared Harris

I met Peter O'Toole for the first time at Dad's memorial service because my Dad didn't hang around with people like that…

— Jared Harris

You always hope that people will fall in love with the characters you play, the way you do yourself.

— Jared Harris

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic -…

— Jared Harris

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

— Jared Harris

When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a position where you're trying not to cry,…

— Jared Harris

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

— Jared Harris

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd…

— Jared Harris

It's odd, because 'Mad Men' was the first long-form TV thing I ever did. I'd done loads of independent movies, but after…

— Jared Harris

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.…

— Jared Harris

When you're at drama school you spend so much time working on amazing texts and analyzing them, digging into them, and figuring…

— Jared Harris