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Jeremy Irons

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 19, 1948

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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Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say.

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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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There are wonderful things happening all around the world. From Nova Scotia to Kerala, Bristol to Melbourne, and even in the Philippines, zero waste is on the agenda. I think what's particularly inspiring is when communities don't wait to be told what to do but just go ahead and do it.

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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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Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.

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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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I wanted to become an actor because I wanted to become a gypsy. I wanted to live the gypsy life!

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I've always tended to play people who relish playing against the rules.

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He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.

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My feeling, of course, is that it's ludicrous to try to prove God's existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that?

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I keep working with fairly inexperienced directors. You know, if you have a good crew, a good cameraman, you know, I know what I'm doing. If the actors know what they're doing, we can all pull together, and it works.

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I've never disliked a character I've played. I've always tried to find the humanity and the reasons for what he does.

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It was a better time to be a young actor when I started out. There was a repertory system where you could go and practise.

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