“I've always thought of characters like advent calendars. You have Christmas and you have all the little doors over the windows and every day you're allowed to open one more as it gets towards Christmas and you see more and more about what's inside that house.I remember as a kid being fascinated by that and I've always thought of my character as a little bit like that. I like to have secrets and slowly let those secrets out to the audience, sometimes never let them out, but let them see as you open the shutters, open and see a little bit more of a character.” LittlesSometimesCharacterKidsRememberHouseBitsSecretAudienceDoorsLittle BitWindowFascinatedCalendarsAdventShutters Author:Jeremy Irons
“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
“Making movies can actually be quite boring, there's a lot of sitting around and waiting. Unless you really believe in the story and love the character, and unless you really need the money, I don't see the point in doing it.” NeedsBelieveCharacterStoriesWaitingSittingAnd LoveBoringSitting Around Author:Jeremy Irons
“I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.” ThinkingWritingMeanCharacterQualityExtraordinaryBehaveInconsistentInconsistency Author:Jeremy Irons
“I've always believed that the great strength of the Internet is that it allows us to communicate with each other, it allows debate. And I think that gay marriage is a huge step forward. But debate is throwing ideas about, and when it becomes sort of a weapon of character assassination, I think that's crazy. I think the situation in America is different from in England, where we have civil partnership, and now the vote on gay marriage has been carried, and whether it will go through Parliament I don't know.” ThinkingDifferentCharacterSituationCrazyInternetGayVoteCommunicateDebatePartnershipAlways BelieveGay Marriage Author:Jeremy Irons
“I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.” ThinkingCharacterActorsAliensCharacteristicsSwaggerCharacter ActorsSwag Author:Jeremy Irons
“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.” KnowsCharacterTechniqueCharm Author:Jeremy Irons
