Jeremy Irons Quotes

• 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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• Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

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

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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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Jeremy Irons (30)

Birth:	19th September, 1948
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Jeremy John Irons was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England. He is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he began his acting career on stage in 1969. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and received a Tony Award for Best Actor. His role in several films include: The French Lieutenant's Woman (Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best Actor), Moonlighting, Betrayal, Swann in Love, The Mission, Reversal of Fortune (Won- Academy Award for Best Actor), Kafka, The House of the Spirits, Lolita, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Merchant of Venice, Being Julia, Kingdom of Heaven, Eragon, Appaloosa, Assassin's Creed, and Justice League (upcoming film, November-2017). His role in television include: Brideshead Revisited (TV serial, Nominated- Golden Globe Award for break-out role), Elizabeth I (miniseries, Won- Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor), and The Borgias (TV series). He was named Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2011.

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