James McAvoy Quotes
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I'm a very proud actor.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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My work has always been political, because the choice of being an artist is political in China.
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I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.
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You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.
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One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.
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I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
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I've cried a lot because of women. I cry a lot, as a person.
