Quotes from 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.

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

I had people when I was younger trying to feel me up. Older men. I just told them to get lost.

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

I've actually always been fussy about the work I do.

The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time.

Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be.

I wanted to find a way of life that allowed me great freedom, not to be stuck. I went to a very traditional school, which prepared people for the army or for banking or for industry, and I wanted to be outside of that.

I wouldn't call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up with a background for the character. I'm not a club man. I don't like isms. I've never really studied Stanislavski.

There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.

It's always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you've worked with before, you don't have to go through that first learning thing. There's an element of trust there.

The danger of dioxins in our environment, our food chain, and our bodies is difficult to illustrate, since they are not visible to the naked eye. My time in Vietnam allowed me to see the result of large quantities of them and therefore understand better the insidiousness of the smaller quantities that have found their way into our lives and bodies.

When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.

What takes us back to the past. Are the memories. What brings us forward. Is our dreams.

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

Could a father not marry his son?

What Takes Us to the PAST is the MEMORY.... What takes Us to the FUTURE is DREAM......