Jeremy Irons movie quotes

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.”
Jeremy Irons

“The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness, that turns good men... cruel.”
Jeremy Irons - Alfred

“- Randall Bragg: Mr. Everett Hitch. You a drinking man, Everett?
- Virgil Cole: Not so much.
- Randall Bragg: Hard to like a man who doesn't drink a little.
- Virgil Cole: But not impossible.”
Jeremy Irons - Randall Bragg
Ed Harris - Virgil Cole

“There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat.”
Jeremy Irons - John Tuld

“- Rodrigo Mendoza: For me, there is no redemption.
- Father Gabriel: God gave us the burden of freedom. You chose your crime. Do you have the courage to choose your penance?”
Robert De Niro - Rodrigo Mendoza
Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel

“If might is right, then love has no place in the world. It may be so, it may be so. But I don't have the strength to live in a world like that, Rodrigo.”

Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel

“- Rodrigo Mendoza: Father, I've come to ask you to bless me.
- Father Gabriel: No. If you're right, you'll have God's blessing. If you're wrong, my blessing won't mean anything.”
Robert De Niro - Rodrigo Mendoza
Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel

“Gucci doesn’t belong on a model, it belongs in a museum.”
Jeremy Irons - Rodolfo Gucci

“Art, like beauty, has no price.”
Jeremy Irons - Rodolfo Gucci

“You are better at this than any of us. Your only problem is you have a soul.”

Jeremy Irons - General Korchnoi

“- Dominika Egorova: He tried to rape me.
- General Korchnoi: And your honor is worth depriving Russia of a promising cadet?
- Dominika Egorova: It was never my intention to deprive Russia of anything.”

Jennifer Lawrence - Dominika Egorova
Jeremy Irons - General Korchnoi

“- Bruce Wayne: Still working? You're getting slow in your old age, Alfred.
- Alfred: It comes to us all, Master Wayne. Even you've got too old to die young, though not for lack of trying.”
Ben Affleck - Bruce Wayne
Jeremy Irons - Alfred

“- Aramis: The King has ordered me to seek out the secret general of the Jesuits and kill him.
- Porthos: You should let the secret general worry about that.
- Aramis: Therein is the problem. I am he. I am the general of the order of Jesuits.”
Jeremy Irons - Aramis
Gérard Depardieu - Porthos

“The situation was increasingly uncomfortable. It was very special this feeling, a coercion oppressive, horrible as I was sitting with a small ghost of someone who I had just killed.”
Jeremy Irons - Humbert Humbert

“- Virgil Cole: Your boys do like the bylaws say, everything will be muy bueno.
- Randall Bragg: And if they don't?
- Virgil Cole: I arrest them.
- Randall Bragg: And if they don't go along?
- Virgil Cole: I shoot them.”
Ed Harris - Virgil Cole
Jeremy Irons - Randall Bragg

“I write by myself... for myself.”
Jeremy Irons - Kafka

“We are not the members of a democracy, Father. We are the members of an order.”
Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel

“I have prayed every day for forgiveness. But now I realize that forgiveness must come from you before it can come from God.”
Jeremy Irons - Aramis

“You built your time machine because of Emma's death. If she had lived, it would never have existed. So how could you use your machine to go back in time and save her? You are the inescapable result of your tragedy.”

Jeremy Irons - Über-Morlock

“- Bruce Wayne: I can't stay down here, Alfred.
- Alfred: Go upstairs and socialize. Some young lady from Metropolis will make you honest.
[to self]
- Alfred: In your dreams, Alfred...”
Ben Affleck - Bruce Wayne
Jeremy Irons - Alfred

“I can assure you, the true charm of this world resides in this garden.”

Jeremy Irons - Charles

“Master Wayne, since the age of seven you've been into the art of deception like Mozart to the harpsichord, but you've never been too hot at lying to me.”
Jeremy Irons - Alfred

“You're a man haunted by those two most terrible words: What if?”

Jeremy Irons - Über-Morlock

“The shock of her death froze something in me. The child I loved was gone, but I kept looking for her, long after I had left my own childhood behind. The poison was in the wound, you see. And the wound wouldn't heal.”

Jeremy Irons - Humbert Humbert

“The Oriental woman: when she's good, she's very very very good. But when she's bad, she's Christian!”
Jeremy Irons - René Gallimard