Character Quote by 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 just walked…

— 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 home to…

— James McAvoy

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

— 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 to be…

— James McAvoy

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

— 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 to be…

— 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 to stop…

— James McAvoy