Jeremy Irons

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#away #brother #doing #four #got

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. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#although #away #big #big event #boat

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#children #grown #i #like #often

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. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#boarding #boarding school #bottom #course #down

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

— Jeremy Irons

#because #being #i #more #more and more

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

— Jeremy Irons

#leap #me #shop #shop window #window

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

#experience #failure #good #i #live

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

— Jeremy Irons

#liked #people #theater #time #worked

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#charm #doing #i #know #me

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

— Jeremy Irons

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