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

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.

Jeremy Irons

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.

Jeremy Irons

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.

Jeremy Irons

I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.

Jeremy Irons

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.

Jeremy Irons

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.

Jeremy Irons

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

Jeremy Irons

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.

Jeremy Irons

There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.

Jeremy Irons

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Jeremy Irons

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

Jeremy Irons

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

Jeremy Irons

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.

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However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

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I love touching. I always touch people.

Jeremy Irons

I've never disliked a character I've played. I've always tried to find the humanity and the reasons for what he does.

Jeremy Irons

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

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I had people when I was younger trying to feel me up. Older men. I just told them to get lost.

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I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

Jeremy Irons

I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building.

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I don't like rules.

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And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

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I have developed a life which seems to need a relatively high income.

Jeremy Irons

No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.

Jeremy Irons

At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

Jeremy Irons

I don't watch a lot of television. I try to watch all the good movies, but I've got about twenty of these television series that I should be watching. I haven't seen 'The Wire.' I haven't seen 'Mad Men.' I haven't seen Kevin's thing. What's that called? 'House of Cards.' I hear it's wonderful.

Jeremy Irons

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

Jeremy Irons

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

Jeremy Irons

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

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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.

Jeremy Irons

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

Jeremy Irons

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

Jeremy Irons

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.

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I think the world is much more transparent now, and I think that's probably a good thing. On the other hand, I think it makes it really tough for people who are natural born leaders who could be guiding us and leading our countries.

Jeremy Irons

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

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When I'm not working, I don't mix with actors, really. I have about two or three friends from theater school, and we call each other and meet. But in the main, no. I'm more happy with musicians or horse riders or sailors.

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