James McAvoy quote: "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."

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like ...
JAMES MCAVOY

The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,...
JAMES MCAVOY

I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.
JAMES MCAVOY

Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determinatio...
JAMES MCAVOY

I'm having the life that I kind of hoped I might have one time, you know? I do feel like I have ...
JAMES MCAVOY

I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of...
JAMES MCAVOY

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, som...
JAMES MCAVOY

I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good peo...
JAMES MCAVOY

A story about my life would be utterly dull.
JAMES MCAVOY

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that w...
JAMES MCAVOY

Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet...
JAMES MCAVOY

Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people ne...
JAMES MCAVOY

As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just ...
JAMES MCAVOY

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then...
JAMES MCAVOY

When you can see kids smiling, that's one of the best things. That's why I did 'Narnia.&...
JAMES MCAVOY

I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are qui...
JAMES MCAVOY

That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those ...
JAMES MCAVOY

Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I...
JAMES MCAVOY

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.
JAMES MCAVOY

I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. An...
JAMES MCAVOY

I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get m...
JAMES MCAVOY

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether ...
JAMES MCAVOY

I've cried a lot because of women. I cry a lot, as a person.
JAMES MCAVOY

Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.
JAMES MCAVOY

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.
JAMES MCAVOY

I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.
JAMES MCAVOY

Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I do...
JAMES MCAVOY

'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage ...
JAMES MCAVOY

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the bet...
JAMES MCAVOY

I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I ...
JAMES MCAVOY

I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing l...
JAMES MCAVOY

I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play ...
JAMES MCAVOY

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to ...
JAMES MCAVOY

I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a...
JAMES MCAVOY

It's really questioning where humanity is going, and is there a place for the way we perceive things...
JAMES MCAVOY

I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason...
JAMES MCAVOY

At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something ...
JAMES MCAVOY

I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't ...
JAMES MCAVOY

I look at the Christian Bale movies, the 'Batman' films, and that shows you that superhero m...
JAMES MCAVOY

I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or an...
JAMES MCAVOY

My name,” I whispered in her ear, and she shivered with pleasure. “Say my name again. Not in ang...
J.J. MCAVOY

Liam, soon-to-be-fucking-dead, Callahan was walking down the stairs—my fucking stairs—with his s...
J.J. MCAVOY

She looks like a sweet little lamb from afar, but when you get close, you find out she skinned and a...
J.J. MCAVOY

Tell me it wasn’t fucking you, and you still get to come to the motherfucking wedding sweetheart.....
J.J. MCAVOY

They're her parent," Neal finally spoke out. "Regardless of what they've done, they're still her par...
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 yo...
J.J. MCAVOY

I swear to God . . .”
“God doesn’t come to this part of the house, so swear to me.” -Li...
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

Invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.” ~ Samuel John...
J.J. MCAVOY

before. I’m so in charge I could be the fucking Energizer bunny.
J.J. MCAVOY

She looks like a sweet little lamb from afar, but when you get close, you find out she skinned and a...
J.J. MCAVOY

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow.” ~ Monsieur Verdoux
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 ...
J.J. MCAVOY

God needs me. What would happen if there weren’t people like me? If the world were perfect, if eve...
J.J. MCAVOY

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

When she reached me, she stopped and kissed my father on the cheek before taking my hand. However, w...
J.J. MCAVOY

Some rats just don’t know when to die.
J.J. MCAVOY

Liam, get your horny fucking ass out of bed and help me kill a bitch!” she yelled.
J.J. MCAVOY

He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the ...
J.J. MCAVOY

A Taser? Really? What are you, a mall cop?
J.J. MCAVOY

I’m not now, nor shall I ever be, any man’s arm candy.
J.J. MCAVOY

There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.” ~ Ambrose ...
J.J. MCAVOY

I am trying! You are closer to me that anyone else Liam.”
“That would be enough, if everyon...
J.J. MCAVOY

Every last person we kill is for family. If we do not kill them, they kill us. It’s the way of the...
J.J. MCAVOY

Step one, accept she was a damn boss. Step two, hide all the knives, guns, and maybe the pillows, to...
J.J. MCAVOY

She fucking shot me. I had been so shocked and horny that my mind couldn’t even comprehend what ha...
J.J. MCAVOY

Interesting does not even begin to cover what happened today.” I said.
“My fiance shot me ...
J.J. MCAVOY

She is. . . she is Bloody Melody and perfect. God created her and then shattered the mold afterward,...
J.J. MCAVOY

I want you to love me.” I said softly. “But if not, then I want to be the closest thing to you l...
J.J. MCAVOY

That ticks me off!” She snapped. “Since when could you bribe me with treats like a fucking child...
J.J. MCAVOY

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ...
J.J. MCAVOY

Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES

I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES

I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
JAMES BLUNT

National honor is the national property of the highest value.
JAMES MONROE

Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m...
JAMES MCBRIDE

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES

I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES

A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES

I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&...
JAMES DASHNER

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
JAMES WAN

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
JAMES THOMSON

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by...
JAMES THOMSON

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON

When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ...
JAMES NAISMITH

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
LEBRON JAMES

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they s...
JAMES AVERY

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with othe...
JAMES TAYLOR

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
JAMES FRANCO

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is ...
JAMES HILLMAN

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,...
JAMES HILLMAN

Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and ...
JAMES BUCHANAN

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t...
JAMES WOLCOTT

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that t...
JAMES MONROE

We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed ...
THEO JAMES

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c...
JAMES BELUSHI

An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki...
JAMES DEAN

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi...
JAMES DEAN

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this grea...
JAMES DEAN

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to ...
JAMES DEAN

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
JAMES DEAN

The only greatness for man is immortality.
JAMES DEAN

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences li...
JAMES DEAN

I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And...
JAMES DEAN

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
JAMES DEAN

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things ...
JAMES DEAN

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w...
JAMES DEAN

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is end...
JAMES DEAN

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.
JAMES DEAN

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and im...
JAMES DEAN

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEAN

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEAN

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you'...
JAMES DEAN

Racing is the only time I feel whole.
JAMES DEAN

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life...
JAMES DEAN

I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how ...
JAMES DEAN

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
KEVIN JAMES

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why...
JAMES WOODS

I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous p...
JAMES HIBBERD

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th...
JAMES HOWE

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration,...
JAMES LANKFORD

I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.
JAMES FRANCO

No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine ...
JAMES MARSDEN

I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they&#...
LILY JAMES

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-a...
JAMES SUROWIECKI

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the sho...
JAMES HECKMAN

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin...
JAMES ALLEN

A man is literally what he thinks.
JAMES ALLEN

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ...
JAMES ALLEN

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y...
JAMES ALLEN

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
LEBRON JAMES

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p...
LEBRON JAMES

I'm confident with my ability.
LEBRON JAMES

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and l...
LEBRON JAMES

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the ...
LEBRON JAMES

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly w...
LEBRON JAMES

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you h...
LEBRON JAMES

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
LEBRON JAMES

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.
LEBRON JAMES

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.
LEBRON JAMES

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.
LEBRON JAMES

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it...
JAMES DENTON

There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone.
LILY JAMES

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place ...
JAMES TAYLOR

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
LEBRON JAMES

I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
JAMES THOMSON

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.

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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.

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