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And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#desire #difficult #get #good #i

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#certainly #enough #get #go #good

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. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#become #children #choice #doctors #envy

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#alien #character #character actor #characteristics #described

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

#aircraft #come #did #father #hard

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#drama #drama school #get #go #i

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#constantly #face #fall #find #going

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

#bottom #continued #fine #gave #i

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

#already #always #any #asked #business

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

— Jeremy Irons

#called #dreams #forward #machines #memories