Max Minghella Quotes

I have a unique ability to mock everything. I'm a sponge by nature, thats what my environment made me.

I basically expect anything. Isn't that wild? I used to surprise myself a lot: certain moves, how I'd get out of trouble. But at some point, you accept the talent that you have, you accept your creativity.

I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

As a model you need to be able to do the craziest things.

It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.

One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.

I just keep looking for things that are interesting and keep calm as possible about it all, not worrying about being in a 'box.'

Me, as a person, I grow. I'm like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

My style is that I have no style.

I realised, 'I'm not going to dribble past five payers and score', so for me it was about having something different, and being two-footed was it. I pride myself on that now.