Jeremy Irons

Notable Quotes



I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

From 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.

From Jeremy Irons

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

From Jeremy Irons

At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

From Jeremy Irons

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.

From 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.

From Jeremy Irons

I have developed a life which seems to need a relatively high income.

From Jeremy Irons

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.

From Jeremy Irons

I believe inanimate objects have a spirit.

From 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.

From Jeremy Irons

Authors with Similar Views

Robert Graves

4 perspectives

Bill Cosby

3 perspectives

Felix Dennis

3 perspectives

Garry Hynes

3 perspectives

Alex Cox

2 perspectives

Authors with Opposing Views

Bill Cosby

2 perspectives

Matt Haig

2 perspectives

Aaron Paul

1 perspectives

Ahmet Ertegun

1 perspectives

Aisha Tyler

1 perspectives