Jeremy Irons movie quotes

“I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.”
Jeremy Irons - Brom

“- Claus von Bülow: I'm not afraid, Alan. Let the chips fall where they may.
- Alan Dershowitz: That's what an innocent man would say.
- Claus von Bülow: I know.”
Jeremy Irons - Claus von Bülow
Ron Silver - Alan Dershowitz

“- Claus von Bülow: Before you assume I'm guilty, won't you hear my story?
- Alan Dershowitz: No. Never let defendants explain; puts most of them in an awkward position.
- Claus von Bülow: How do you mean?
- Alan Dershowitz: Lying.”
Jeremy Irons - Claus von Bülow
Ron Silver - Alan Dershowitz

“- Kafka: When a document is sent to the Medical Records Division, is it possible to recall it for a view?
- The Keeper of the Files: Of course not. Who'd want to let in a bunch of riff-raff off the street?”
Jeremy Irons - Kafka
Robert Flemyng - The Keeper of the Files

“- The Chief Clerk: Kafka... I understand you fancy yourself as a writer.
- Kafka: In a small way.
- The Chief Clerk: You should find a more... athletic hobby. Put some color in your cheeks.”
Alec Guinness - The Chief Clerk
Jeremy Irons - Kafka

“- Zeus Carver: Didn't I hear you say you didn't even like your brother?
- Simon Gruber: There's a difference, you know, between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Zeus Carver
Jeremy Irons - Simon Gruber

“Sometimes I wish mother was here so I could send you back to her.”

Jeremy Irons - Esteban Trueba

“What I heard then was the melody of children at play, nothing but that. And I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that chorus.”
Jeremy Irons - Humbert Humbert

“Athos, if we fail in this - and we probably will - it will be an honor to die beside you.”
Jeremy Irons - Aramis

“What is time travel but your pathetic attempted to try to control the world around you? Your futile effort to have a question answered?”
Jeremy Irons - Über-Morlock

“I'm a genius, not an engineer.”
Jeremy Irons - Aramis

“- Pucci: We could return your reputation and your virginity to you.
- Victoria: You could do that?
- Pucci: Oh, yes. We are the Catholic Church. We can do anything.”
Jeremy Irons - Pucci
Natalie Dormer - Victoria

“- Sunny von Bülow: Well, just because she had all the money before I had all the money does not mean she is my lord and master.
- Claus von Bülow: Of course not. I am your lord and master. Just kidding.”
Glenn Close - Sunny von Bülow
Jeremy Irons - Claus von Bülow

“- Anna: In 1857, it's estimated there were 80,000 prostitutes in the county of London.
- Mike: Yeah?
- Anna: Out of every 60 houses, one was a brothel.
- Mike: Hoo, hoo, hoo.
- Anna: At a time when the male population of London of all ages was one and a quarter million, the prostitutes were receiving clients at a rate of two million per week.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)

Meryl Streep - Anna
Jeremy Irons - Mike

“In my experience the truth is not... that convenient.”
Jeremy Irons - Kafka

“Our world is changing. We French lost our war in Indochina because we failed to learn about the people we sought to lead. It's natural, therefore - correct, even - that they should resent us. How could they do otherwise, when we refused to treat them like fellow human beings?”
Jeremy Irons - René Gallimard

“Killing won't change anything.”
Jeremy Irons - Jack Elgin

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
Jeremy Irons - Über-Morlock

“- René Gallimard: You made me see the beauty of the story, of her death. It's pure sacrifice. He's not worthy of it, but what can she do? She loves him so much. It's very beautiful.
- Song Liling: Yes, to a Westerner.
- René Gallimard: I beg your pardon?
- Song Liling: It's one of your favorite fantasies, isn't it? The submissive Oriental woman...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeremy Irons - René Gallimard
John Lone - Song Liling

“- Athos: What gives you the right to judge me, to play God with the lives of others? Is it because you're so much holier than everyone else?
- Aramis: Well yes, there is that. But also because I'm more intelligent than anybody else.”
John Malkovich - Athos
Jeremy Irons - Aramis

“- Kafka: That's what you're trying to eliminate, isn't it? Everything that makes one human being different from another. But you'll never reach a man's soul through a lens.
- Doctor Murnau: That rather depends on which end of the microscope you're on, doesn't it?”
Jeremy Irons - Kafka
Sir Ian Holm - Doctor Murnau

“A massive amount of fornication can lead to confusion.”
Jeremy Irons - Pucci

“- Rodrigo Mendoza: For me there is no redemption, no penance great enough.
- Father Gabriel: There is. But do you dare to try it?
- Rodrigo Mendoza: Do you dare to see it fail?”
Robert De Niro - Rodrigo Mendoza
Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel

“- Porthos: Aramis! You sawed the beam! You knew I would I try to hang myself and you sawed the beam! Admit it. Admit it!
- Aramis: Of course I knew! And now that you've got the idea of killing yourself out of your head you can stop boring everyone and be useful for a change. And put some clothes on!”

Gérard Depardieu - Porthos
Jeremy Irons - Aramis

“- Alan Dershowitz: You are a very strange man.
- Claus von Bülow: You have no idea.”
Ron Silver - Alan Dershowitz
Jeremy Irons - Claus von Bülow