Jeremy Irons Quotes
Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.
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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
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In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
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There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.
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Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
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But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
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I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes.
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We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.
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You can't help but be in awe of the athletic abilities of the WWE Superstars.
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I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.
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I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!
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The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians.
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You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.
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People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.
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Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.
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Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.
