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

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

— Jeremy Irons

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

— Jeremy Irons

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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

#aircraft #come #did #father #hard

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

— Jeremy Irons

#drama #drama school #get #go #i

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

— Jeremy Irons

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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

#desire #even #failure #field #i

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

— Jeremy Irons

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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

#already #always #any #asked #business

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

— Jeremy Irons

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