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 More Quotes by Jeremy Irons More Quotes From Jeremy Irons We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams. Jeremy Irons dream time inspirational What takes us back to the past are the memories. Jeremy Irons dream memories past We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. Jeremy Irons dream inspirational life It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat. Jeremy Irons pieces paper made When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams. Jeremy Irons pieces use dream I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. [...] There's something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy. Jeremy Irons live-life healthy feelings The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other characters in yourself, you sort of broaden as a person over your life because you've been other people. So you can empathize with many different sorts of people. It's great in that way and I hope, therefore, as you get older as an actor, you not only get more interesting because you lived more, but you get a bit wiser as a person. Jeremy Irons character people interesting Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be friendly? Jeremy Irons communication men hands I get bored very easily, so I love doing different things, changing, doing a job for a month and then doing another one for six months and then moving into a different group of people. I love being able to stop. That's one of the greatest benefits we have in our profession. Jeremy Irons love-is jobs moving I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me. Jeremy Irons creating love-is children The fact is that in England so many of our politicians are career politicians - they've always been politicians since they left their education. And in the old days of course politicians used to be fish mongers or doctors or whatever. They'd lived life. These days, power seems to go to the hands of people that that's all they've done. And I'm not sure that's a good thing, because it does remove them from the realities of life. Jeremy Irons done reality people Making movies can actually be quite boring, there's a lot of sitting around and waiting. Unless you really believe in the story and love the character, and unless you really need the money, I don't see the point in doing it. Jeremy Irons waiting character believe So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game. Jeremy Irons partners games thinking I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave. Jeremy Irons writing character mean I certainly play people on the edge quite a lot. I am interested in what makes people odd and what makes them different. In life I try to play the edges. I have a horror of the herd. There are many, many different sorts of people. A lot of people are fairly uninteresting. I want to play the interesting ones. The villains are always more interesting to portray. Shakespeare knew that. Jeremy Irons play people interesting Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer. Jeremy Irons singers voice actors Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same. Jeremy Irons actors successful You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts. Jeremy Irons lines theatre thinking I've always believed that the great strength of the Internet is that it allows us to communicate with each other, it allows debate. And I think that gay marriage is a huge step forward. But debate is throwing ideas about, and when it becomes sort of a weapon of character assassination, I think that's crazy. I think the situation in America is different from in England, where we have civil partnership, and now the vote on gay marriage has been carried, and whether it will go through Parliament I don't know. Jeremy Irons gay crazy character I was educated in a private school in England amongst people who had been trained for sort of banking or the Army or business. As I came towards the end of my education, I thought I must find something or I'll never meet any of these people again. Jeremy Irons army people school
