James McAvoy Quotes
I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
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Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.
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'People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they?'
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If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
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That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
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All I'm doing is being in films that I would watch if I wasn't in this industry.
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My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you're getting really big laughs. I don't necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. 'Caddyshack' is amazing, but there's not a lot of new 'Caddyshack's.
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I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.
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The mystery of light and the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.
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I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
