Will Mcavoy Quotes & Sayings

I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you get bored, or you just keep playing the same part, over and over again. Eventually audiences get bored of that, as well. — James McAvoy

There's something about Michael J. Fox that I loved when he did all the '80s stuff. His way of performing all the physicality, which is why it's so tragic now, but the way he used his body so much as well, I loved. — James McAvoy

Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, 'I commit to you. I will help you in this life.' — James McAvoy

I will have it brought over in half an hour," she replied
"Hurry before she bites off my arm for a snack," I said quickly before hanging up. — J.J. McAvoy

Wife, there is no expiration date on vengeance. It doesn't just last a lifetime, it spans generations. So let us rest tonight; it is not us who will die tomorrow."
"Shakespeare's got nothin' on you. — J.J. McAvoy

Are the hormones as bad as everyone says they are?" I asked him to change the subject.
He looked at up to me his brown eyes widened as he understood what I meant. Finally he grinned.
"That explains it."
"So, is that yes?
"That is ... good luck. — J.J. McAvoy

I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!' — James McAvoy

I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome. — James McAvoy

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. — James McAvoy

If you think for a bloody second that I would ever let you go through any of this alone, you've lost your mind. I will find you, I will bring you home, and I will fix you, do you hear me? Because I need you to fix me too. — J.J. McAvoy

Levi Black, you are such a fucking sadist. "Do — J.J. McAvoy

She was mine. She was all fucking mine.I was the king of the jungle, and the woman beside me was my queen. — J.J. McAvoy

Father, I'd rather die at your hands than at Liam's ... or worse, Mel's. Give me one second to tell you and then I will run faster than Forrest Gump. — J.J. McAvoy

And damn well no 5-0 with his Smokey the Bear looking sidekick, will ever tell me differently. — J.J. McAvoy

One day you could be sitting on the top of the world, then the next it could be sitting on you, — J.J. McAvoy

I judge people very quickly. — James McAvoy

I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I feel that there is quite a lot distance there and have played a little bit far away from myself. — James McAvoy

In a love scene that's really advantageous because you don't have that horrible moment of: "We don't really know what we're supposed to be doing, we just know we're supposed to be snogging and then shagging." Then the director shouts "action" and it's like: "Should I feel her boobs? I don't want to feel her boobs! — James McAvoy

I'm free to look at what I own. — J.J. McAvoy

They're her parent," Neal finally spoke out. "Regardless of what they've done, they're still her parents. Yes, she remembers the bad, but she will always remember the good as well, however short it was. It's not as easy to kill family as everyone makes it seem."
"This moment of wisdom was brought to you by - " I was cut off as a water bottle came flying at my head. I caught it and laughed.
"He's right though," our father replied. "We can't just keep killing everyone ... especially our in-laws."
True, we were running out of places to hide the bodies. I snickered at the thought. — J.J. McAvoy

Before. I'm so in charge I could be the fucking Energizer bunny. — J.J. McAvoy

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry. — James McAvoy

He is gone and I find myself staring at shoes so large that they could've only belonged to a giant. — J.J. McAvoy

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. — Tom Hiddleston

Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue. — James McAvoy

I'd been wanting to work with James McAvoy since I was in drama school. I suppose there are parallels in that we're Scottish, we went to the same drama school and share the same agent, but aside from that, he's someone I've looked up to. — Emun Elliott

I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen to be suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid. — James McAvoy

Control her Neal, or else she will need new parts. No one calls my wife a bitch ... with the exception of me. — J.J. McAvoy

I can be your savior, I can cloak you in gold, or I can be your worst nightmare. I can destroy your life, your career, everything can come crashing down around you. Chicago will become a place worse than hell because I get whatever I want when I want it. Those who get in my way never get back up after I knock them down. Nothing and no one is out of reach for me. So doctor, when I ask you what else, speak, and when you speak, don't waste my time preaching ethics and morality to me ... I have and want none. — J.J. McAvoy

I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if dye my hair and I always say 'Wow, no!' I'm 'trans-ginger.' — James McAvoy

And if anything comes against us, we will do what we have always done."
"Fight?"
"Win. — J.J. McAvoy

Since my worldview has expanded, I don't consider myself working class anymore, and I'm attracted to playing characters who go through a similar evolution. — James McAvoy

She could disarm and cut people down with them alone. It was a talent of hers. She had no need for guns, she just liked them. — J.J. McAvoy

I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange. — James McAvoy

I love you more than Cinderella loved Prince Charming. From: — J.J. McAvoy

Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe. — James McAvoy

You don't become ruthless with hugs and kisses. It is pain that makes us. — J.J. McAvoy

Icarus burned because he flew during the day. He wanted the world to see. We fly in the darkness, where people are afraid to look. — J.J. McAvoy

I loved being dominated in such a beastly sexual way. How his hands, lips and tongue all grabbed on to me. — J.J. McAvoy

I am Levi Black and my record was spotless; I didn't mess around with students, I didn't lose cases, and I sure as hell didn't air my dirty laundry in public. — J.J. McAvoy

When I said you're mine, I meant it. Remember? I saw what I mean. I chose scars and all. — J.J. McAvoy

As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing. — James McAvoy

I think I'm losing my hair finally. And, yeah, that's kind of all I know. — James McAvoy

You are not a black rainbow. I see every one of your colors. — J.J. McAvoy

Just like I'd expected,kissing him did nothing,I could have been kissing my arm and gotten more of a rise out it. — J.J. McAvoy

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun. — James McAvoy

I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original. — James McAvoy

There sitting in the middle of the bed with her pinky sticking out as she drank her tea like the damn queen of England, was my wife. — J.J. McAvoy

I always win gentlemen. Even if it looks like I'm losing I'm winning. — J.J. McAvoy

But I wanted ... I needed her to need e as much as I needed her. — J.J. McAvoy