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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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.
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Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?
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Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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'Teenage Dream' was the hardest breakup for me.
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I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.
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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.
