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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In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
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In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.
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I think Edie Sedgwick comes back, too. Every five or six years, there is always something about Edie, because she was so modern and stylish and elegant and hippie-ish, all at the same time. So I think that people will always love her.
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Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.
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I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be.
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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.
