Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many West End theatre productions including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Godspell, Richard II and Embers. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and received a Tony Award for Best Actor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth19 September 1948
CityCowes, England
character technique charm
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.
character thinking swag
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.
character interesting people
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.
character kids doors
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.
afford child models seen support
Are you insane? Have you seen how many models there are here? Even he couldn't afford the child support payments.
age boarding change school schools
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.
asked house plays quite sort understood
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.
decision empathize halfway role towards understanding
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.
amplify bit body flick focus greater happening pull speech thinking thoughts volume ways
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.
contrast loved music musical wonderful
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.
age bottom continued gave next stream takes talents
So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine.
life maybe paris record remember sort time vault
Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be.
My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.
believe hard
No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.