Max Irons Quotes

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you're doing one of these films, you have to embrace your most childlike imagination - a sense of wonder and uninhibited playfulness.

One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very much about it, but I'm paid to make believe. When you're a kid, you go to your friend's house, and it's, 'Let's pretend we're both cowboys!' Without belittling it, that's basically what I do - I tell stories.

I was always putting on plays for my family. Usually silly ones. I used my imagination a lot, and it was something that came naturally to me.

The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.

I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.