Latest Jeremy Irons Quotes from Interviews

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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

• I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.

  Jeremy Irons

  Writing, Character, Mean

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

• The fact is that in England so many of our politicians are career politicians - they've always been politicians since they left their education. And in the old days of course politicians used to be fish mongers or doctors or whatever. They'd lived life. These days, power seems to go to the hands of people that that's all they've done. And I'm not sure that's a good thing, because it does remove them from the realities of life.

  Jeremy Irons

  Reality, People, Done

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Making movies can actually be quite boring, there's a lot of sitting around and waiting. Unless you really believe in the story and love the character, and unless you really need the money, I don't see the point in doing it.

  Jeremy Irons

  Believe, Character, Waiting

  Source: in.ign.com

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

  Jeremy Irons

  Fussy

  Source: in.ign.com

• I have to say that I've reached the state of my career where I quite like not to work. Strange enough, I'm busier than ever. I'm not spending every waking hour beside a telephone waiting for it to ring.

  Jeremy Irons

  Careers, Waiting, Telephones

  Source: in.ign.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There are a group of people who are managing the world to their advantage and who just look to the rest of us as people who will buy their products and fund their salaries.

  Jeremy Irons

  People, Looks, World

  Source: in.ign.com

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

  Jeremy Irons

  Careers, Bigs, Big Movie

  Source: in.ign.com

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

  Jeremy Irons

  Games, House, Trying

  Source: in.ign.com

• 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.

  Jeremy Irons

  Thinking, Steps, Nightmare

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

• 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.

• The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other characters in yourself, you sort of broaden as a person over your life because you've been other people. So you can empathize with many different sorts of people. It's great in that way and I hope, therefore, as you get older as an actor, you not only get more interesting because you lived more, but you get a bit wiser as a person.

  Jeremy Irons

  Character, People, Interesting

  Source: www.pbs.org

• To be an actor you need various things. You need to have a head for choosing the roles. You have to be, hopefully, easy to work with so people enjoy working with you. You have to deal with missing roles, with not being asked to work, with doing good work and then being castigated by the critics for it. You have to have a skin that can deal with all of that. I, fortunately, seem to have the makeup which allows me to deal with the business. I mean, not as everybody.

  Jeremy Irons

  Mean, Makeup, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I get bored very easily, so I love doing different things, changing, doing a job for a month and then doing another one for six months and then moving into a different group of people. I love being able to stop. That's one of the greatest benefits we have in our profession.

  Jeremy Irons

  Jobs, Moving, Love Is

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

• 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.

• I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me.

  Jeremy Irons

  Children, Love Is, Creating

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

• 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

• 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.