Jeremy Irons Quotations

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It's communication. Can't we be friendly?

When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.

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

You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.

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.

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

I'm very glad I'm not a politician. I think it's one step away from the gates of hell, being a politician. I really do. It`s a nightmare.

It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat.

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

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.