Jeremy Irons Quotes

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.

I started backstage, making the tea, looking after the actors, doing stage management for two years.

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.

I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

I painted sets before I ever performed.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

I directed plays in college. It's something that I have sort of always put in the back of my mind, and I'm a busy actress, and it's very difficult to sort of find the time, honestly, to commit to directing. It's a very - it's a big, big job.

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I'm not inspired by television.

My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.

I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I got in Conservatoire, my teachers would give me a lot of flack because I wasn't rehearsing my lines; I'd be doing stage management. I was interested in sound. I was interested in architecture. I was interested in every aspect of theatre.

I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.

'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous.

When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.