Max Irons Quotes

I was never my favourite subject.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it's a weird, like, 'Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?'

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very pretty, and there's nothing else that stands out about me besides my skating.

I say whatever I want, I look whatever I want. That doesn't mean I don't question myself and feel insecure.

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

It's tough being me.

I'm not great at talking about myself.

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

I think everybody's got their insecurities and hang-ups. Everybody! Unless you're an idiot.

Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

I don't even know if I exist offstage.

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.