James McAvoy Quotes
I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.
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It's not that I don't get on bandwagons; I just climb aboard only after most of the band has packed up and left for the next gig.
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My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.
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I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.
