A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away. – Jeremy Irons
I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years. – Jeremy Irons
Because I’m now successful, what I’m being offered as an actor is more and more of the same. – Jeremy Irons
My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that. – Jeremy Irons
I do this work, but I am uncomfortable in situations where you’re hyped into something you’re not. Just because you’re in a long limo doesn’t mean anything. – Jeremy Irons
I think the world is much more transparent now, and I think that’s probably a good thing. On the other hand, I think it makes it really tough for people who are natural born leaders who could be guiding us and leading our countries. – Jeremy Irons
I’ve never disliked a character I’ve played. I’ve always tried to find the humanity and the reasons for what he does. – Jeremy Irons
I do what I do because I like doing it. I’m well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it’s worth. – Jeremy Irons
The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done. – Jeremy Irons
I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure. – Jeremy Irons
An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it. – Jeremy Irons
I think there’s still an appetite among a certain audience to see intelligent movies that have real emotion in them. – Jeremy Irons
Film wise, I invariably look at my work and reckon I could have done it better. I’m also conscious that I’m in a profession where we get more praise than we should compared to the usefulness of what we do. – Jeremy Irons
I think all of society should be a think-tank where you throw ideas about. I had hoped the Internet would help. Actually, what it has done is make everybody go schtum. They’re attacked for saying anything. So they say nothing. – Jeremy Irons
My feeling, of course, is that it’s ludicrous to try to prove God’s existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that? – Jeremy Irons
It’s always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you’ve worked with before, you don’t have to go through that first learning thing. There’s an element of trust there. – Jeremy Irons
The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the films and 70 per cent talking about it. – Jeremy Irons
So nevertheless, what I’m saying is that what one is – one’s parameters are constantly narrowed by one’s success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure. – Jeremy Irons
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. – Jeremy Irons
My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15. – Jeremy Irons
Civility, politeness, it’s like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it. – Jeremy Irons
‘Lolita’ was a great wound in the side for me. I stuck my neck out maybe further than I should have and castigated the studio for not getting behind it. – Jeremy Irons
I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I’d say no. Eventually, I got ‘Godspell.’ It was gently building. – Jeremy Irons
I don’t watch a lot of television. I try to watch all the good movies, but I’ve got about twenty of these television series that I should be watching. I haven’t seen ‘The Wire.’ I haven’t seen ‘Mad Men.’ I haven’t seen Kevin’s thing. What’s that called? ‘House of Cards.’ I hear it’s wonderful. – Jeremy Irons
However, I wasn’t very good at the sciences, or didn’t have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn’t set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn’t get a good enough result to go to University. – Jeremy Irons
No, I don’t believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen. – Jeremy Irons
Nowhere are emissions monitored constantly. So the truth is that the real quantity of dioxin emissions from incineration remains unknown. – Jeremy Irons
