134 Quotes by Jeremy Irons

Now the decision to play a role is halfway towards understanding the character, because you empathize with it and that's why you want to play it.

I always wanted to do more plays but I never quite understood how you got asked to do a play. I had done house plays, but they were sort of skits.

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.

At the age of 12 I was going on to another boarding school in another part of the country. We change schools at 13 in this country.

Are you insane? Have you seen how many models there are here? Even he couldn't afford the child support payments.

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.

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.

I'm sure that Steve Martin would love to be where I am, and I would like to be more where he is as far as the comedy stakes are concerned.