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 Gardening
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 Sad
So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine. -Jeremy Irons Age
Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say. -Jeremy Irons Sad
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 Failure
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 Failure
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. -Jeremy Irons Time
You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does give us a strength, because it's quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard. -Jeremy Irons Strength
Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say. -Jeremy Irons Romantic
You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does give us a strength, because it's quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard. -Jeremy Irons Marriage
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 Society
