Ive got my dads height and smoking habit. But I think Ive got my mums looks and sensibilities. – Max Irons
The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. – Max Irons
Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know theyre right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit. – Max Irons
I mean, its fine when youre a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, Ive got this great game of pretend, and you play… As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish – it is weird but its wonderful. – Max Irons
My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So hed listen to a lot of music and the songs that hed learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even. – Martina McBride
What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: Crumbs, have I made a mistake here? If you dont have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours. – James Lovelock