I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
Jeremy Irons
I do this work, but I am uncomfortable in situations where you’re hyped into something you’re not. Just because you’re in a long limo doesn’t mean anything.
Jeremy Irons
I don’t mind getting older. I’m enjoying not having that raging ambition I’ve had all my life.
Jeremy Irons
I envy children who know that they’re going to become doctors, know they’re going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that’s what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.
Jeremy Irons
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 traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.
Jeremy Irons
I have developed a life which seems to need a relatively high income.
Jeremy Irons
I have played characters where I haven’t been absorbed – you know, what I call a typical film leading man role where you just have to look gorgeous and be attractive and charming. It bores me. I like a bit of dirt, a bit of sand in the oyster.
Jeremy Irons
I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.
Jeremy Irons
I love touching. I always touch people.
Jeremy Irons
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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.
Jeremy Irons
I think all of society should be a think-tank where you throw ideas about. I had hoped the Internet would help. Actually, what it has done is make everybody go schtum. They’re attacked for saying anything. So they say nothing.
Jeremy Irons
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.
Jeremy Irons
I think the world is much more transparent now, and I think that’s probably a good thing. On the other hand, I think it makes it really tough for people who are natural born leaders who could be guiding us and leading our countries.
Jeremy Irons
I think there’s still an appetite among a certain audience to see intelligent movies that have real emotion in them.
Jeremy Irons
I wanted to find a way of life that allowed me great freedom, not to be stuck. I went to a very traditional school, which prepared people for the army or for banking or for industry, and I wanted to be outside of that.
Jeremy Irons
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.
Jeremy Irons
I wouldn’t call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up with a background for the character. I’m not a club man. I don’t like isms. I’ve never really studied Stanislavski.
Jeremy Irons
It’s always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.
Jeremy Irons
I’ve always had a desire to live on the outside. That’s where I’m most comfortable.
Jeremy Irons
‘Lolita’ was a great wound in the side for me. I stuck my neck out maybe further than I should have and castigated the studio for not getting behind it.
Jeremy Irons
Mathematicians are always playing tricks on each other. They’re always pulling jokes on each other.
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.
Jeremy Irons
My feeling, of course, is that it’s ludicrous to try to prove God’s existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that?
Jeremy Irons
No, I don’t believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.
Jeremy Irons
Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.
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 how life used to be.
Jeremy Irons
Peter Brook’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ I remember seeing. That was pretty early on. And suddenly, I realized how theatrical Shakespeare is, how alive, how wonderful it is when it’s opened up by a great director and a great company.
Jeremy Irons
Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, ‘It’s not going on forever, this.’ Let’s make the most of what time I have left.
Jeremy Irons
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.
Jeremy Irons