Jeremy Irons Quotes

My father went to boarding school in Sydney when he was 14.

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

When I was 11, I had just started my comprehensive school.

At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

I went to prep school for one year in Arizona. It was called Orme.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

Except for a short period at the end of World War II, I attended an elementary school affiliated to Kobe University from ages six to twelve and then moved on to Nada Middle and High School from ages twelve to eighteen. I enjoyed many out-door activities in my youth.

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

I went to high school in Minnesota.

I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people.

I did fine in school. School was cool until I started personally rebelling.

I went to high school in Orange County.

I don't know what it is that I love so much about high school, but I'm attached. The empty hallways. The teachers. They made me feel so much.

I went to high school in Stockton, CA.

When I was fourteen, Mom and Dad sent me to St. Joseph High School, the Catholic school up the hill from our place, housed in a 1950s-era tan brick building sometimes confused for a light industrial structure due to the surprisingly high smokestack of its old incinerator.

My school career was absolutely crucial to me. As an endurance athlete, some of the most important years are maybe when you are 16, 17, and 18. For me, getting that right was very important, and my school allowed me to do that.

For me, at least with my parents, I feel that they wanted me to have all the opportunities that they did not have, and for them, that meant going to private school.

I went to uni, and I studied commerce on a scholarship, and that was crazy and wild in and of itself.

Every child deserves to attend school in a safe, supportive environment where they can learn, thrive, and grow.