134 Quotes by Jeremy Irons

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.

I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.

I think there's still an appetite among a certain audience to see intelligent movies that have real emotion in them.

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.