Jeremy Irons Quotes
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.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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I look formidable.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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I never rule anything in or out; life can surprise you.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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What I sacrificed as I pursued my dreams was my comfort, not the lives of other people who looked to me to stay afloat. That alone freed me to take more risks, which did pay off in dividends. Having a safety net is an asset that most people do not have.
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Vanity begins and ends with deception, so the reason people put interesting and attractive clothes on their bodies is perhaps the same for having uninteresting and unattractive expressions on their faces.
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When you step out there on the field as a corner in our system, you have to be ready to play because humility is one week away.
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I never really try to watch the movie of the things I've been in.
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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.
