Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.

My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.

It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.