Jeremy Irons Quotes

I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.

I'm not driven by money anymore.

I am not really attached to my films and work. The film industry is just a small part of my life.

The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.

Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.

So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time; get your sleep and a little bit of food; and work as much as you can. There's so much enjoyment in doing what you love. Maybe this will open doors, and you'll find a way to do what you love.

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.

I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever.

The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.

It is important to always love what you do and do what you love. This is my mentality towards my career and my personal life.

By worrying as little as possible about fame.

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

I think my whole life, work has been a very important and positive thing for me. It never was something that made me feel unhappy or disengaged from life. It always makes me feel like I'm plugged in, in a really healthy way.

It's fine to be on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying to grab the brass ring or whatever you define as success, but your relationships, that's really all that matters when it's all said and done.

I don't want to get so lost in thinking about me and talking about me all the time in interviews. It's so nice to unwind and just look at other things and get out of yourself. It's hard to detach myself from myself without neglecting myself. You know what I mean? I don't want to get in to the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, it's not really that important. I could die tomorrow and the world would go on.

Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

Life is so very short. Do now what you yearn to do in your life. You do not have to 'quit your day job' in order to do this. You may do so if you choose to, but you do not have to. Many people advance a vocation while holding down their 'regular job.' You can, too. Then ease into your vocation and turn it into your 'regular job.' But you must give energy to your vocation starting today. I mean, today.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.