Max Irons Quotes

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

Max Irons

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• I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Think
  • Relationships
  • Doors

• The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • People
  • Life
  • Beauty

• By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Up
  • Unity
  • Within

• When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Picture
  • Person
  • Wants

• I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Football
  • Anything

• Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Science
  • Mean
  • Act

• I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Writing
  • Views
  • Liked

• On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Know
  • Nobody

• Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Universe

• It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Culture
  • Rule
  • Modern

• Statesmen remember things selectively.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Remember

• So nice to be a fashion icon in my day.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Nice
  • Fashion

• What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Drama
  • Literature

• And I got so drunk, I got so drunk that I actually woke up thinking, 'Should I get up and pee, or just pee in the bed?' Actually weighing the pros and the cons. 'Well, it'll be warm for a minute...it's a big bed, I'll just roll over...I'll just blame it on that guy!'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Guy

• No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Work
  • Art
  • Dream

• I believe chemistry is based on the trust between two performers. What actually works is something intangible - being extremely comfortable in each other's presence.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Believe
  • Trust

• Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Legacy

• Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music
  • House
  • Cool

• Like many entrepreneurs, I started out in sales. I began at 14, when I got a job selling shoes and tennis rackets at a pro shop, and I've been selling one thing or another ever since.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Job
  • Shoes
  • Tennis

• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Long
  • Soul

• I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Time
  • War
  • Acting

• People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on 'Discover.'

  

  Peter Graves
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

  

  Max Irons