Jeremy Irons Quotes

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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