“The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time.” Quote by Jeremy Irons
“I have to say that I've reached the state of my career where I quite like not to work. Strange enough, I'm busier than ever. I'm not spending every waking hour beside a telephone waiting for it to ring.” StatesEnoughWaitingHoursCareersStrangeSpendingRingsWakingTelephonesBusier 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
“People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.” PeopleWorldMindToolsMake SenseUncertainty Author:Michael Lewis
“People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.” PeopleOrderUncertaintyDislike Author:Michael Lewis
“In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.” PeopleKindLeaderDoubtCertaintyExpertsAdviserOverconfidence Author:Michael Lewis
“I'd say part of the appeal of Trump is that he's presenting himself as a totally certain, infallible person.” PersonsCertainTrumpAppealsPresentingInfallible Author:Michael Lewis
“You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.” WayGivingMindCertainPiecesInformationAnchors Author:Michael Lewis
“When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.” PeopleIfsWayHappensThings HappenPredictable Author:Michael Lewis
“Donald Trump got almost 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton! He happened to get more in some of the right places. It was just like one of those things where a stock going up and people impose a false sense of order on it. It's really more intellectually honestly viewed as a disorderly process.” PeopleOrderProcessMillionsHappenedTrumpVoteClintonHonestlyFewerRight Place Author:Michael Lewis