Jeremy Irons Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.”

“I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.”

“I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.”

“It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.”

“So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.”

“The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.”

“An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.”

“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.”

“My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.”

“I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.”