Jeremy Irons movie quotes

“What do you give a wife that has everything?”
Jeremy Irons - Claus von Bülow

“Money is shit to me. I would not give up McClane for all the gold in your Fort Knox.”

Jeremy Irons - Simon Gruber

“The British and the American governments must do something to bring these hijackers to justice! Fifteen people died! My wife, my daughters, and neither the Americans under whose flag the airplane was flying, nor the British government, can just be allowed to abandon them, and walk away!”
Jeremy Irons - Jack Elgin

“- Grubach: Kafka. Kafka, Kafka... Is that your real name?
- Kafka: Yes. W-why shouldn't it be?”
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Grubach
Jeremy Irons - Kafka

“- Kate: Planning a holiday? Or an escape?
- Jack Elgin: Who knows?”
Charlotte Rampling - Kate
Jeremy Irons - Jack Elgin

“- Alan Dershowitz: Well, a priest is the ideal witness: it's like getting the word of God.
- Claus von Bülow: I checked. God is unavailable.”
Ron Silver - Alan Dershowitz
Jeremy Irons - Claus von Bülow

“- Claus von Bülow: Oh, come on, Sunny, your father worked! Do you want the children to grow up thinking a male's place is in a deck chair?
- Sunny von Bülow: Claus, you marry me for my money then you demand to work! You're the prince of perversion!”
Jeremy Irons - Claus von Bülow
Glenn Close - Sunny von Bülow

“- Davidson: If you come up with something interesting, well, shit happens. Unofficially.
- Jack Elgin: My son has just lost his mother! I think it's important that I stick around!
- Davidson: Maybe you owe them more than that.”
Jason Priestley - Davidson
Jeremy Irons - Jack Elgin

“- Alan Dershowitz: You do have one thing in your favor: everybody hates you.
- Claus von Bülow: Well, that's a start.”
Ron Silver - Alan Dershowitz
Jeremy Irons - Claus von Bülow

“A normal man, given a group photograph of school girls and asked to point out the loveliest one, will not necessarily choose the nymphet among them.”
Jeremy Irons - Humbert Humbert

“It's good to be back.”

Jeremy Irons - Esteban Trueba

“I'm a soldier, not a monster. Even though I sometimes work for monsters.”

Jeremy Irons - Simon Gruber

“- Zazu: Well, as slippery as your mind is, as the King's brother you should've been first in line.
- Scar: Well, I was first in line, until the little hairball was born.
- Mufasa: That hairball is my son. And your future king.
- Scar: Oh, I shall have to practice my curtsy.”
Rowan Atkinson - Zazu
Jeremy Irons - Scar
James Earl Jones - Mufasa

“I'm surrounded by idiots.”
Jeremy Irons - Scar

“Yesterday we were an army with no country, tomorrow, we have to decide which country we want to buy!”

Jeremy Irons - Simon Gruber

“- Ferula: I would like to be a man... for also to leave.
- Esteban Trueba: And I am happy for not being a woman.”
Glenn Close - Ferula
Jeremy Irons - Esteban Trueba

“- Porthos: Aramis, is this the way to hell?
- Aramis: Hell may be our destination, but not this trip.”
Gérard Depardieu - Porthos
Jeremy Irons - Aramis

“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks, she was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin. My soul.”
Jeremy Irons - Humbert Humbert

“- Song Liling: You never really loved me.
- René Gallimard: I'm a man who loved a woman created by a man. Anything else simply falls short.”
John Lone - Song Liling
Jeremy Irons - René Gallimard

“- Porthos: Stop praying and revel with me, Aramis! I need my spirits lifted. I'm old, I'm weak, my strength is gone.
- Aramis: Porthos! I'm praying.
- Porthos: I just said you're praying. Are you deaf, too? I know you're blind, because if you'd seen the tits that just walked out of here, you'd have tears in your eyes.”
Gérard Depardieu - Porthos
Jeremy Irons - Aramis

“- Rodrigo Mendoza: Are you laughing at me?
- Father Gabriel: I am laughing because what I see is laughable. I see a coward, a man running from the world.”
Robert De Niro - Rodrigo Mendoza
Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel

“I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago, but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither, I didn't care. I would...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeremy Irons - Humbert Humbert