Jeremy Irons Quotes

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.

Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.

I don't look ahead to the future as a vast, endless one. I've begun to feel the calendar pages turning.

For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future, and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite.

I want to live life, not just spend it.

Life's too short to just breeze on by.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

This whole thing about, 'Take it easy, you had a heart attack, you might die,' I don't have time to take it easy. I might go at any point now. So, I want to get as much done as I can!

'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

When I did play, I tried to make the most of it.

You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

Life's too short for chess.