Jeremy Irons Quotes

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

The seeds of divorce are often sown and the problems of children begin when Mother works outside the home.

For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.

My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short with Rhonda and me that afternoon, which I attributed to the heat. I was oblivious to the mounting hostilities in our basement apartment.

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

Everything was an escape for me when I was younger. I had a tumultuous home life thanks to the unsavoury characters my mom would marry. My brother just sort of evaded, and my dad lived far away, so I was left alone.

My daddy didn't even sign my birth certificate. So I ain't never had his last name.

My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.

When I was seven my parents divorced. My father went to Dallas. My mom fled to the shelter of my grandparents in a strange central Ohio town of 22,000, Wooster. When it looked like I was growing up to be a wimp I was forced to live with my father, which I did not want to do.

I was barely 17 when our father decided to part ways with my mother.

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.

I grew up in a town without fathers.

The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.

My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.

Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.

My parents separated when I was younger.

The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.

That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.