Jeremy Irons Quotes

Over the years, I've covered 22,000 miles.

You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another.

I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.

Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks.

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.

Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.

I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.

Cycling is open to the whole world.

Walking, it turns out, is a sublime way to get to know people in China. They're used to meeting strangers on the road. Many here understand what it feels like to walk a long way.

When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.

We have a family holiday once a year, usually abroad, but that's it. I feel I should have holidays for my family's sake, but I'm not that adventurous.

There were neither railways nor telegraphs, and in our propagandistic journeys we took three days and three nights to go in execrable diligences from Paris to Lyons.

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it's a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

I travel a lot. I'll go back and forth, you know, West Coast-East Coast, but it's separated by segments. So it's not a daily thing.

I normally get four weeks off each year, so often I'll go to Los Angeles, or if I have a weekend off, I'll do a European city.

I drove from L.A. to the bottom of Florida on Vespas, and I drove cross country multiple times in a car. I've done a lot of road tripping.

Travelling is hard. I'm no traveller. I hate flying, and I hate hotels.

I hate to travel.

Driving alone, you can make 800 miles a day.

I spend so much of my time on the road and traveling.

People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people used to die on the way there, have a baby, you would end up with a whole different group of people by the time you got there. Now you watch a movie and [go to the toilet] and you're home.

Just be happy that something traveled 5,000 miles across the Pacific and, for once, it wasn't your job.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

I've spent half my life on planes.