James McAvoy Quotes
Top 48 wise famous quotes and sayings by James McAvoy
James McAvoy Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.
The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.
I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.
That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.
If my career isn't going that well, I'd rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: 'I'm for hire! Remember me!'
I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.
I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.
Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.
People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.
Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.
For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.
I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'
I am a nerd, but I don't dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe 'Star Trek.'
I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much.
I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.
I look at the Christian Bale movies, the 'Batman' films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.
As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.
I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake, you're dead.
Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.