James McAvoy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
-
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
-
When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
-
Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
-
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
-
I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
-
Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
-
I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
-
I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
-
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
-
Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
-
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
-
I believe clothing tell a story.
-
This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
-
If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
-
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
-
An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
-
Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
-
Andy Dick is so gay, he thinks Margaret Cho is funny.
-
Everyone has gifts; everyone can contribute.
-
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
-
When I was younger, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, which meant, for me, sitting in front of a book was really hard - until I discovered Harry Potter, and this character, this 11-year-old boy, who suddenly gets off to school for the first time, captured my imagination, and suddenly reading was fun. Reading was inspiring, and I was motivated.
-
After my mother died, I learned that she'd had a scholarship to the University of Nebraska, but - in kind of a tradition that females don't do things like that - her father prevented her from going. She always said that she wasn't allowed to go to college, but until she died, I never knew that she'd had this scholarship.
-
I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.
