Jeremy Irons Quotes

I was not a trained actor.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work.

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere.

I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

The mistake people that want to be actors make is to move to New York or L.A. right away. But it's like... go act somewhere first. Be an actor. A story is a story, and an audience is an audience, no matter where you're doing it.

I always tell younger actors that if they want to learn the ropes, there's no better place to do it than right here in the U.K.

In my early days, I used to go to many acting gurus, Asha Chandra and Roshan Taneja being two of them.

Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot.

I just feel lucky to have had my training at Juilliard. Even though it is a 'classical' training programme, they also prepare you for all mediums. They don't teach specific techniques or subscribe to a specific school of thought about acting.

When I came to Mumbai, I had no experience in acting 'til I actually did it.

After my 12th standard, I started preparing for the film industry. I've had no formal acting training.

As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they grow and you get to do more.

As far as acting, I just went in and just started training. It was the first thing I did right when I retired. I just went in and found class, and found people, found the right coaches that could sort of just train me along.

When you're 20 and you're in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty years, you think it doesn't apply to you. But it does take twenty years to become real, because that's what you have to do to be an interesting actor.

I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

It was my dream for years... to train. Dominic [Cooper] went and he's doing alright. But some people don't go and do brilliantly. Although I think there are things I missed from not having trained. I think I'd be more confident on stage had I gone because I think it means you're equipped with better vocal training and things like that.