Jeremy Irons Quotes

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

It seems, by today's standards, that it's better to seek approval than to tell the truth. It's better to utter sweet nothings than to boldly say something of substance.

We judge of entire nations by the productions of a few mechanical arts, and think we are talking of men, while we are boasting of their estates, their dress, and their palaces. The sense in which we apply the terms, great, and noble, high rank, and high life, show, that we have, on such occasions, transferred the idea of perfection from the character to the equipage; and that excellence itself is, in our esteem, a mere pageant, adorned at a great expense, by the labors of many workmen.

I'm reminded of an interview Larry King had on his talk show with one of Michael Jackson's sisters. He's talking about how many millions she made on her latest record, and all of a sudden, she looks at him tearfully and says, "Larry, you know, I'm not interested in money or sales or songs. I'm a spiritual person." And I thought, "Oh my god..."

Everybody is full of crap. The coin of the realm is being full of crap. The best people - being full of crap are our leaders and our superstars.

It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

I'm not like them, but I can pretend.

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

Seeming to do is not doing.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

The "styles" are a lie.

Screw reality. It don’t feed my dog. It don’t make my Porsche payments. It don’t get me laid. Bullshit does that…and I like it that way. (Leo)

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.