Famous quotes by Jeremy Irons:
"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."
"Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up."
"Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be."
"It's a musical I've never seen, but I've loved the music for some time, ... This is a great, wonderful contrast from making movies."
"You have to communicate on a much greater scale, ... With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage, a lot of other things are happening that can pull focus or energy. You're always thinking the same way, but you have to amplify your thoughts with the volume of your speech and the ways you use your whole body to communicate what you're feeling. It's a little bit different from film."
"It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured."
"Are you insane? Have you seen how many models there are here? Even he couldn't afford the child support payments."
"I'm getting my singing voice back, cutting back on the cigarettes a fraction, and I've been rehearsing like mad, ... Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer."
"I hope this will be the first of many such first nights."
"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."
"Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window."
"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."
"So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game."