Jeremy Irons Quotes
It was a better time to be a young actor when I started out. There was a repertory system where you could go and practise.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
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Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.
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It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.
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There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
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I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and tell her about this weird kid in my class who drew only with black crayons and didn't speak to other kids. I talked about it so much that my mother brought it up with the teacher, who said, 'What? That's your son.'
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Along the way, everyone's been saying, 'Make sure you take care of your voice because you're going to want to do it the rest of your life.' And it's absolutely true.
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It was a better time to be a young actor when I started out. There was a repertory system where you could go and practise.
