Jeremy Irons Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  "Jeremy Irons on Courage". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2005.

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• I've actually always been fussy about the work I do.

  Jeremy Irons

  Fussy

  Source: in.ign.com

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• Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.

  Jeremy Irons

  Morning, Afternoon, Skis

  "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.

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• 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

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• It's always useful to be in big movies for one's career.

  Jeremy Irons

  Careers, Bigs, Big Movie

  Source: in.ign.com

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• You look worldwide for the great leaders, and they're pretty thin on the ground, and of course the problem is unless you're squeaky, squeaky clean, something is going to come out of the cupboard. Most people aren't squeaky clean. Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they're very fearful of running for office. It's a huge shame, because often people who have really lived and are amazing people can be brought down by a past indiscretion.

  Jeremy Irons

  Running, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I've always thought of characters like advent calendars. You have Christmas and you have all the little doors over the windows and every day you're allowed to open one more as it gets towards Christmas and you see more and more about what's inside that house.I remember as a kid being fascinated by that and I've always thought of my character as a little bit like that. I like to have secrets and slowly let those secrets out to the audience, sometimes never let them out, but let them see as you open the shutters, open and see a little bit more of a character.

  Jeremy Irons

  Character, Kids, Doors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Jeremy Irons

  People, Theater

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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

  Jeremy Irons

  Games, House, Trying

  Source: in.ign.com

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• 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

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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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.

  Jeremy Irons

  Voice, Actors, Singers

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

  Jeremy Irons

  Successful, Actors

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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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.

  Jeremy Irons

  School, Army, People

  "Actor Jeremy Irons". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 7, 2012.

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• 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

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• I find what I call the [bleep] side of the industry very difficult. You won't see me at other peoples' premiers. I mean, I go to my own premiers because I have to help my film, but I don't enjoy that whole side of it. I don't enjoy celebrityhood. I love getting a seat in a restaurant. I love it when people say hi when I don't know them. I mean, that's fine, but apart from that, I like the elements of celebrityhood which make living in the world like living in your own village.

  Jeremy Irons

  Mean, People, Elements

  "Actor Jeremy Irons". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. September 7, 2012.

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• 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

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• I've always believed that the great strength of the Internet is that it allows us to communicate with each other, it allows debate. And I think that gay marriage is a huge step forward. But debate is throwing ideas about, and when it becomes sort of a weapon of character assassination, I think that's crazy. I think the situation in America is different from in England, where we have civil partnership, and now the vote on gay marriage has been carried, and whether it will go through Parliament I don't know.

  Jeremy Irons

  Crazy, Character, Gay

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Could a father not marry his son?

  Jeremy Irons

  Father, Son

  "Jeremy Irons On Gay Marriage: ‘Could A Father Not Marry His Son?’" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 02, 2016.

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

  Jeremy Irons

  Sex, Father, Son

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• I think I'm probably an assassin and not a Templar, but no doubt we're probably run by people with Templar mentalities.

  Jeremy Irons

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: in.ign.com

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• 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

  "Jeremy Irons on Integrity". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• 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

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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

  Jeremy Irons

  Men, Play

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• Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

  Jeremy Irons

  Training, Aptitude, Theater

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• 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

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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