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30 quotes by Jeremy Irons

Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) 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 London 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...
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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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No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.

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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... →

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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... →

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And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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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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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.

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