Jeremy Irons Quotes

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  • Never played a video game. Actually, I try to keep them out of my house.

    Source: in.ign.com
  • I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

    "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
  • One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.

    "Jeremy Irons: prophet of doom" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2010.
  • I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

    "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
  • Making movies can actually be quite boring, there's a lot of sitting around and waiting. Unless you really believe in the story and love the character, and unless you really need the money, I don't see the point in doing it.

    Source: in.ign.com
  • The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done.

    "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
  • Could a father not marry his son?

    "Jeremy Irons On Gay Marriage: ‘Could A Father Not Marry His Son?’" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 02, 2016.
  • What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

    "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
  • A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.

    "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
  • I get bored very easily, so I love doing different things, changing, doing a job for a month and then doing another one for six months and then moving into a different group of people. I love being able to stop. That's one of the greatest benefits we have in our profession.

    "Actor Jeremy Irons". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 7, 2012.
  • I've actually always been fussy about the work I do.

    Source: in.ign.com
  • And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

    People  
    "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
  • Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

    "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
  • And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I’m probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

    People  
    "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
  • The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time.

    Source: in.ign.com
  • Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

  • Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be friendly?

    "If a man pats a woman's bottom he's just being friendly, says Jeremy Irons" by Liz Thomas, www.dailymail.co.uk. August 9, 2011.
  • It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

  • When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.

  • I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

    People  
    "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
  • To be an actor you need various things. You need to have a head for choosing the roles. You have to be, hopefully, easy to work with so people enjoy working with you. You have to deal with missing roles, with not being asked to work, with doing good work and then being castigated by the critics for it. You have to have a skin that can deal with all of that. I, fortunately, seem to have the makeup which allows me to deal with the business. I mean, not as everybody.

    People  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.

    "Exclusive Sundance Interview with Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey and Writer-Director J.C. Chandor for MARGIN CALL". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 30, 2011.
  • My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.

    "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
  • Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

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  • I was educated in a private school in England amongst people who had been trained for sort of banking or the Army or business. As I came towards the end of my education, I thought I must find something or I'll never meet any of these people again.

    People  
    "Actor Jeremy Irons". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 7, 2012.
  • At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

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    "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.
  • The fact is that in England so many of our politicians are career politicians - they've always been politicians since they left their education. And in the old days of course politicians used to be fish mongers or doctors or whatever. They'd lived life. These days, power seems to go to the hands of people that that's all they've done. And I'm not sure that's a good thing, because it does remove them from the realities of life.

    People  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.

  • I have to say that I've reached the state of my career where I quite like not to work. Strange enough, I'm busier than ever. I'm not spending every waking hour beside a telephone waiting for it to ring.

    Source: in.ign.com
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