“The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other characters in yourself, you sort of broaden as a person over your life because you've been other people. So you can empathize with many different sorts of people. It's great in that way and I hope, therefore, as you get older as an actor, you not only get more interesting because you lived more, but you get a bit wiser as a person.” PeopleWayPersonsDifferentCharacterActorsBitsInterestingActingGreat ThingsOver YouWiserExploring Author:Jeremy Irons
“I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. [...] There's something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.” WantFeelingsActingHealthyImportancePassionateLive LifeDetachment Author:Jeremy Irons
“An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props, and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.” LoveMadeEnoughAgeActingStageChangedTheaterI RealizedManagersAssistantsPropsSceneryCanterburyStage Managers Author:Jeremy Irons
“Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.” WantChildrenActorsActingTakenBehave Author:Jeremy Irons
