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

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

No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.
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

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

And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.
Jeremy Irons