Jonathan Rhys Meyers admits he's so vain

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers has admitted he is vain and that if he had been born "short and fat" he would not be a major star.

In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald Rhyss Meyers stated that how you look "defines the roles that you play. The reason Angelina Jolie plays the roles she does is because she looks that way."

He says he is motivated by vanity nowadays : "Any actor who sits down in front of you and tells you they're not vain, it's bullshit. To get up in front of a camera, of course you have to have a certain amount of vanity. All acting is narcissism in some way. Am I a narcissistic person? Absolutely. Am I vain? Absolutely."

However he maintains he is not into the Hollywood lifestyle

"You don't see me dating a Hollywood actress," he says. (He was dating Reena Hammer, heir to the cosmetic line Ruby & Millie, until recently). "And you don't see me playing golf with politicians and directors. I live a very un-Hollywood life yet I do a very Hollywood job."

He says he got into acting for the "soft money" it offered.

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PolinDeB | Aug 15, 2010, 09:01 PM EDT

Yeah, and he's hardly that shallow, he's a Tara supporter .... check out the harp he put on the hill.

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Rebelforce | Feb 22, 2010, 04:52 PM EST

Why would he go from a great Irish name like Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keefe to Jonathan Rhys Meyers? Okay, his mother's maiden name was Myers, but where the hell did Rhys come from?

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killowen | Feb 22, 2010, 10:14 AM EST

Acting of all kinds / singing and such included .. fills a need for self expression. I would prefer no one that I knew showed up, but other souls.

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Amante2me | Feb 22, 2010, 09:32 AM EST

He is right about actors being vain and should be applauded for this honesty but if he thinks he has not gone "Hollywood" he needs to rethink that statement. Like other Hollywood celebraties he uses his stardom to get his way and uses it to get out of trouble. When he drinks his Hollywood ego comes out. Granted he does not live in the US but stars in other countries have that "Hollywood" attitude. He is a very good actor.

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