Jeremy Irons Quotes

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• 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…
• One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable
• I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is…
• Could a father not marry his son?
• I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. There's something…
• You have to communicate on a much greater scale. With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage, a lot of…
• Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.
• 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's communication.…
• An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I…
• 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…
• Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.
• Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.
• 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…
• I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
• 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…
• It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something…
• I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and…
• So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.
• Same-sex marriage will lead to "fathers marrying sons."
• Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

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