113 Thought-Provoking Quotes By Jeremy Irons
British actor Jeremy Irons began his career on stage, in 1969. He earned a ‘Tony Award’ for his role in ‘The Real Thing.’ His breakthrough came with ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman,’ for which he earned a ‘BAFTA Award’ nomination. He bagged in an ‘Academy Award’ for his performance in ‘Reversal of Fortune.’ He earned a ‘Golden Globe Award’ nomination for his role in ‘Brideshead Revisted.’ Go through the compilation of famous sayings by Jeremy Irons on games, feelings, dreams, life, love, acting, memories, health, theatre, children, career, belief, actors, communication, hard-work, etc.
You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.
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.
There are a group of people who are managing the world to their advantage and who just look to the rest of us as people who will buy their products and fund their salaries.
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.
Same-sex marriage will lead to "fathers marrying sons."
Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.
One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.
Never played a video game. Actually, I try to keep them out of my house.
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?
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Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.
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 to eat.
It's always useful to be in big movies for one's career.
I've actually always been fussy about the work I do.
I'm very glad I'm not a politician. I think it's one step away from the gates of hell, being a politician. I really do. It`s a nightmare.
I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.
I think I'm probably an assassin and not a Templar, but no doubt we're probably run by people with Templar mentalities.
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.
Could a father not marry his son?
Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.
You ask my wife or my two sons, and they'll tell you that I ain't free with the money.
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.
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.
There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.
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.
The older I get, the less busy I like to be.
The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the films and 70 per cent talking about it.
So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.
So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
Nowhere are emissions monitored constantly. So the truth is that the real quantity of dioxin emissions from incineration remains unknown.
