I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's u... by Jeremy Irons

I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.

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Could a father not marry his son? by Jeremy Irons

Could a father not marry his son?

father son

Never played a video game. Actually, I try to keep them out of my... by Jeremy Irons

Never played a video game. Actually, I try to keep them out of my house.

games house trying

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success. by Jeremy Irons

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

parameters

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.

population return facts

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.

charm technique character

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

yule brother years

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for childre... by Jeremy Irons

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

acting taken children

Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afterno... by Jeremy Irons

Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.

skis afternoon morning

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.

sad-things mines done

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctur... by Jeremy Irons

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

play men

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

cases interest intellectual

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.

holiday sleep school

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all. by Jeremy Irons

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

aptitude training theater

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.

mother home father

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

height lines nice

Same-sex marriage will lead to "fathers marrying sons." by Jeremy Irons

Same-sex marriage will lead to "fathers marrying sons."

father sex son

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.

swag character thinking

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

risk fields desire

I'm a complete libertarian. I think it's very, very dangerous. I really mean that. I think the smoking ban is a tip of an iceberg of society - the leaders of society telling us how to be. I think it's not their business. It's an attitude where the governors think, 'We know what's best for people, and they're so stupid that they would only not do it if we ban it.'

stupid attitude mean

It's always useful to be in big movies for one's career. by Jeremy Irons

It's always useful to be in big movies for one's career.

big-movie bigs careers