James McAvoy

I like cooking, but I don't think I could be a chef. Everyone from the ground up does terrible hours, whether you've…

— James McAvoy

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

— James McAvoy

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come…

— James McAvoy

I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport.…

— James McAvoy

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

— James McAvoy

I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen…

— James McAvoy

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on…

— 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…

— James McAvoy

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

— James McAvoy

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

— James McAvoy

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

— James McAvoy

I learned something from a string of failed relationships. You don't see a pattern quickly. You see it over time. I learned…

— James McAvoy

I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.

— James McAvoy

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

— James McAvoy

My favorite name of a fandom is Benedict Cumberbatch's - 'the Cumberbatches' is just the best name.

— 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…

— James McAvoy

My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister…

— James McAvoy

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

— James McAvoy

I decided to give up the idea of being a priest before I decided I wanted to be an actor. I considered…

— James McAvoy

The script is the most important thing for me. I'm advised that other things are important too, and they are. The director…

— James McAvoy

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do…

— James McAvoy

A cry-wanking scene is the struggle to live, in a single moment.

— James McAvoy

That singular uncompromising nature I think is always quite attractive, not just for an actor to play, we're attracted to uncompromising people…

— James McAvoy

I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you…

— James McAvoy

Kids audience is a brilliant audience. If you've got an audience of adults standing up and clapping, or you've got an audience…

— James McAvoy