James McAvoy Quotes

I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much.

James McAvoy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterFeelToo MuchPlayDone

The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise.

John Boyle O'Reilly

LifeArtPracticeNew LifeExercise

The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

John Sergeant Wise

SonPeopleNameAmericanOldFirst

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

John Polkinghorne

ThinkingPresentToo MuchMuchVery

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

Stephen Schwartz

StoryEnjoyYouProjectTellWriter

We can no longer take our own way of life for granted - we know that it may be challenged. And we know this, too - and know it ever more deeply - we know that freedom and democracy are not just big words mouthed by orators but the rain and the wind and the sun, the air and the light by which we breathe and live.

Stephen Vincent Benet

LifeLiveFreedomRainLightWords

I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But all of those things just helped me to put words together. It gave me a different perspective.

Ro James

PerspectiveTogetherWordsSchoolMe

I've always hated oppression.

Rodrigo Duterte

OppressionAlwaysHated

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Mary Wollstonecraft

WomenChildrenMenWeaknessInnocent

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

Lucinda Williams

GoodWritingEnoughKnowAnything

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Jose Rizal

PeopleLanguageLibertyMarksWhile

Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy 'migration utility' through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

Douglas Rushkoff

FriendsDoubtEasyYouWantWill

I'm never afraid of pattern or texture.

Ashley Nell Tipton

NeverAfraidTexturePattern

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