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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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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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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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
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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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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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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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When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
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I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.
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It's tough, with the iTunes and all the downloads... You've really got to make an impact to be heard and be unique and different.
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Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.
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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.
