Jeremy Irons Quotes

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

Jeremy Irons

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• At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

  

  Eddie Perez
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• I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

  

  Jack Vance
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• Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

  

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• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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  • Attention
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• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Always
  • Thought
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• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
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• Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Good
  • God
  • Half

• By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • Experience
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  • Software

• I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Family
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• I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
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• You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Worry
  • Numbers
  • Repetition

• There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
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  • Role

• I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Love
  • Fun
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• I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

  

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• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

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• I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.

  

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• The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
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• I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

  

  Foxy Brown
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• My kids and I live like three fun-loving hermits. We're quite bohemian.

  

  Amrita Singh
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  • Kids
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• Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

  

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  • Experience
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• I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Why
  • Question
  • Feel

• I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Children
  • Envy