Quotes by Jeremy Irons

About Jeremy Irons:

Jeremy John Irons is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many West End theatre productions including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Godspell, Richard II and Embers. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and received a Tony Award for Best Actor.
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So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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

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

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However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

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

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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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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

Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember...

Jeremy Irons

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

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

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

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My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

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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.

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameJeremy Irons
  • DescriptionEnglish actor
  • BornSeptember 19, 1948
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Voice Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actor; Donostia Award