English - Actor | September 19, 1948 -
I think the job of artists is to stir things up.
Jeremy Irons
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I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.
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I think there's still an appetite among a certain audience to see intelligent movies that have real emotion in them.
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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.
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There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.
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The older I get, the less busy I like to be.
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The danger of dioxins in our environment, our food chain, and our bodies is difficult to illustrate, since they are not visible to the naked eye. My time in Vietnam allowed me to see the result of large quantities of them and therefore understand better the insidiousness of the smaller quantities that have found their way into our lives and bodies.
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I believe that most people would like to cooperate in reducing waste, but to encourage them, the national policy should be clear, well advertised, and consistent. Even within Greater London, there is a huge discrepancy between council policies. I believe a national waste management initiative should be designed and implemented by government.
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Nowhere are emissions monitored constantly. So the truth is that the real quantity of dioxin emissions from incineration remains unknown.
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I do what I do because I like doing it. I'm well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it's worth.
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I don't like rules.
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Peter Brook's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' I remember seeing. That was pretty early on. And suddenly, I realized how theatrical Shakespeare is, how alive, how wonderful it is when it's opened up by a great director and a great company.
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