Jeremy Irons Quotes

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

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

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

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Could a father not marry his son?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?