Jeremy Irons Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I like things simple.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I love bayou life.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
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I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.
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The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.
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I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.
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I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.
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There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.
