134 Quotes by Jeremy Irons

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

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.

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

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

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

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.