James McAvoy Quotes
I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
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The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
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We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
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There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.
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Eutrapelia. 'A happy and gracious flexibility,' Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.
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Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
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I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.
