Jeremy Irons Quotes
I've never disliked a character I've played. I've always tried to find the humanity and the reasons for what he does.
Jeremy Irons
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
Laura Marling
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
Sam Donaldson
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
T. D. Jakes
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
Katharine Cornell
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
Jack Lowden
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When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
Otto Preminger
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A well begun is half ended.
A. C. Benson
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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.
Eddie Marsan
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
Walter Huston
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I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
Harold Brodkey
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I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.
David Duchovny
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Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.
Lynne Truss
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When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
Kate Bernheimer
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Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea.
Lindsay Duncan
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First we've got population. Now, the world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that (forecast) by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent, but there we see an increase of about 1.3 (per year).
Bill Gates
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I've never disliked a character I've played. I've always tried to find the humanity and the reasons for what he does.
Jeremy Irons
