James McAvoy Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: April 21, 1979

Topics

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When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Robert Kiyosaki

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There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

Jean Paul

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I lived with my mom my whole life; her work ethic was ridiculous, and it hasn't changed.

Stipe Miocic

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Kill Rock Stars allowed me to put out a real genuine rock 'n' roll record.

Ronnie Spector

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The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.

Rupi Kaur

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I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

Louis C. K.

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I get hecklers all the time!

Judah Friedlander

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I'd like to think I'm funny.

Jazz Jennings

FunnyThinkLike

I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.

Jonathan Davis

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So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

Diane Lane

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It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.

Dexter Fletcher

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