Jeremy Irons

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.

Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say.

You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does give us a strength, because it's quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard.

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.

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

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