Jeremy Irons Quotes
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.
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.
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We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.
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When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
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The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
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Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.
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Please watch a little less television. Maybe post a few less comments about the lunch you had today.
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When I would read the 'Archie' comics when I was younger, I was rooting for Betty and Archie way over any alternative.
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I'm that weird guy; I hate being told what to do.
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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.
