Jeremy Irons Quotes
I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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Models are what they are... people who model clothing, that's all.
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We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it
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I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.
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I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building.
