Jeremy Irons Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

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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 in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.

  Jeremy Irons

  Travel, Journey, Years

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

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• 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

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

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• 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

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

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• 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, Mines, Sad Things

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

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• 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.

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  Love, Age, Acting

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

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• 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.

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  People, Important, Desire

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

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• 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.

  Jeremy Irons

  Ties, Long, Television

  Source: in.ign.com

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• I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.

  Jeremy Irons

  Tennis, Trying, Balls

  Source: in.ign.com

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• Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

  Jeremy Irons

  Window, Leap, Shops

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

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• 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

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

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• I'm a complete libertarian. I think it's very, very dangerous. I really mean that. I think the smoking ban is a tip of an iceberg of society - the leaders of society telling us how to be. I think it's not their business. It's an attitude where the governors think, 'We know what's best for people, and they're so stupid that they would only not do it if we ban it.'

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  Attitude, Stupid, Mean

  "Oscar-Winner Jeremy Irons Slams Bloomberg's 'Nanny State'", www.realclearpolitics.com. April 03, 2013.

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