Jeremy Irons Quotes
I wouldn't call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up with a background for the character. I'm not a club man. I don't like isms. I've never really studied Stanislavski.
Quotes to Explore
-
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
-
I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
-
I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
-
I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
-
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
-
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
-
Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
-
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
-
I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
-
I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
-
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
-
My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
-
I love New York. Love it.
-
Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
-
I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
-
Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
-
With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
-
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
-
Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
-
I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.
-
In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.
-
I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.
-
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
-
I wouldn't call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up with a background for the character. I'm not a club man. I don't like isms. I've never really studied Stanislavski.
