Jeremy Irons famous quotes

What takes us back to the past are the memories. What brings us forward is our dreams.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Dream #Memories #Past

Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Morning #Afternoon #Skis

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Inspirational #Life #Dream

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Thinking #Games #Partners

You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Thinking #Theatre #Lines

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 my brother six years.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Brother #Years #Yule

Same-sex marriage will lead to "fathers marrying sons."
-- Jeremy Irons

#Sex #Father #Son

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Training #Aptitude #Theater

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.
-- Jeremy Irons

#People #Theater

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Character #Thinking #Swag

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Men #Play

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.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Done

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.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Fall #Opportunity #Risk

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.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Dream #Use #Pieces

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Character #Technique #Charm

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Children #Taken #Acting

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.
-- Jeremy Irons

#School #Holiday #Sleep

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Intellectual #Cases #Interest

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.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Pieces #Paper #Made

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.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Mother #Father #Home

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.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Nice #Lines #Height

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.
-- Jeremy Irons

#School #Age #England

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.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Years #Long #Way

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

#Population #Return #Facts

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 one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Children #Thinking #Doctors

Could a father not marry his son?
-- Jeremy Irons

#Father #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 about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Live Life #Feelings #Healthy

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 other things are happening that can pull focus or energy. You're always thinking the same way, but you have to amplify your thoughts with the volume of your speech and the ways you use your whole body to communicate what you're feeling. It's a little bit different from film.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Eye #Thinking #Focus

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Voice #Actors #Singers

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. Can't we be friendly?
-- Jeremy Irons

#Communication #Men #Hands

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 made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Acting #Assistants #Enough

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.
-- Jeremy Irons

#People #Important #Desire

Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Window #Leap #Shops

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Successful #Actors

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.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Shoes #People #Red

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Want

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.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Risk #Desire #Fields