Latest James McAvoy Quotes from Interviews

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• I wanted to join the navy to get some perspective on the world and explore.

  James McAvoy

  Perspective, Navy, World

  "Wanted: James McAvoy Interview". Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. July 22, 2008.

• It's weird when you're watching yourself in a film - you can't really detach yourself from the experiences you've had that day. You're never watching the film as a proper punter.

  James McAvoy

  Film, Punters

  "Wanted: James McAvoy Interview". Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. July 22, 2008.

• I've been in a few fights and I know what it's like to get punched in the face.

  James McAvoy

  Fighting, Faces, Knows

  "Wanted: James McAvoy Interview". Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. July 22, 2008.

• It's nice to be in a movie that hasn't been absolutely slaughtered by the press.

  James McAvoy

  Nice, Presses

  "Wanted: James McAvoy Interview". Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. July 22, 2008.

• It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.

  James McAvoy

  Thinking, Cameras, Directors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Directors, Want, Action

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Kids audience is a brilliant audience. If you've got an audience of adults standing up and clapping, or you've got an audience of kids standing up and clapping, I know which one I'd choose.

  James McAvoy

  Kids, Adults, Brilliant

• The script is the most important thing for me. I'm advised that other things are important too, and they are. The director that you'll be working with is hugely important, and the cast that are with you is really important as well. But, for me, the thing that gets my heart excited and really makes me invested in something or not is just the quality of the script.

  James McAvoy

  Heart, Important, Quality

• No movie has ever got enough time. It doesn't matter how much money you've got, and it doesn't matter how much money you've not got. You never finish on time. You're always up against it and you're always working up until the end.

  James McAvoy

  Enough Time, Matter, Ends

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Careers, Bored, Risk

  Source: collider.com

• Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.

  James McAvoy

  Girl, Sex, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

• I learned something from a string of failed relationships. You don't see a pattern quickly. You see it over time. I learned to stop jumping in at the first sign of attraction. As soon as you're attracted to someone, you go for it - whether or not it's a good idea. Basically, just going out and getting laid.

  James McAvoy

  Jumping, Ideas, Going Out

  Source: www.elle.com

• I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.

  James McAvoy

  Girl, Missionary, Lost

  Source: www.elle.com

• That singular uncompromising nature I think is always quite attractive, not just for an actor to play, we're attracted to uncompromising people whether they're nice or not, because they're 3D, they're solid, you can define them, it's not wishy washy.

  James McAvoy

  Nice, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

• The better the script is the more you can commit, but you can only really commit with full confidence when you know the material is as strong as your level of commitment to it and it frees you up.

  James McAvoy

  Strong, Commitment, Levels

  Source: collider.com

• Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting.

  James McAvoy

  Interesting, Lines, Moral

  Source: collider.com