The 57-year-old actor admits he tied the knot with his first wife, Julie Hallam, because he didn't want to be discourteous - and to please her mum.
The star, who has been married to Irish actress Sinead Cusack for 27 years, told Britain's Sunday Times Magazine: "She was lovely but we shouldn't have got married. I think I was trying to please her mother. I got married because I didn't want to appear rude."
The star has also revealed he dreamed of being a vet when he was a child.
He says he was desperate to take care of animals when he grew up, but wasn't good enough in science classes.
Irons, was born on the Isle of Wight and went to school in Dorset, said: "I wanted to be a veterinarian, like a childhood friend. He had a practice in London in the week and at the weekend he would come down to look after cows and horses. It seemed perfect, but I wasn't strong on science."
Well I haven't heard this one before but I've heard something very similar!
An American guy that I know - he was divorced twice - once said
'Next time I get married I want to be the one who proposes'
and I said 'Why, it wasn't you the other times?'
and he said 'No it was my girlfriends both times, and I only said yes because it would have been rude to refuse'
Apparently this happens more often that I thought. My cousin was engaged to a longtime girlfriend. I don't think either of them were in a big hurry to make anything "official" but my aunt made the comment "they had to set a date, they just can't keep their hands off each other". This was a woman who believed her daughter, who had to be picked up from a naval base at 14, was a virgin until marriage. Right.
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