Jeremy Irons Quotes

I don't take well to rules.

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I'm not part of any movement; I don't like being fettered.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

I'm done with rules that are there just to be rules.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.

I don't particularly like being told what to do.

I don't really have routines or follow what my coaches tell me or how people want me to be: this stereotypical 'sleep on time and set good examples' person. I don't really know what setting a good example is.

We never want to toe the line.

I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't like other people telling me what to do. This is probably a reaction against people telling me what to do when I was a kid. I won't join any group, espouse a cause against some other people.

Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many things you do because you reluctantly feel you should or must? Watch closely. Examine every action and reaction. Do you act naturally or do you act because you feel compelled? If you feel compelled, stop. Compulsion is slavery. Example: Refuse to go along with the crowd.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.