Jeremy Irons Quotes

At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

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• I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

  

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• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

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• I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.

  

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• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

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• Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

  

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• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

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• I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

  

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• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

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• There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.

  

  Beck
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• I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.

  

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• I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.

  

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• I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

  

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• Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

  

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• I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

  

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• I don't mind playing spoiler.

  

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• I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.

  

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• It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

  

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• I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

  

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• A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

  

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• I was born three weeks early, and I kept being ill. From the age of zero to four, I was always in hospital having tests done, but they couldn't find out what was wrong. They discovered that one of my kidneys wasn't working properly, and it had scarred. I had to have 32 injections in my arm in the morning and evening to try and make me better.

  

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• I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.

  

  Charlie Rose
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• I like visceral writing that people can't help but respond to, even if they respond, and they're shocked, or they're angry, or they're offended. I think that's the only way to reach people.

  

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• At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

  

  Jeremy Irons
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