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【James McAvoy Quotes】
"The world seemed less scary.... And I started to like myself a little bit more," (adding of how he knew they were in love with his ex-wife Anne-Marie Duff)
世界变得更可爱，而且，我开始稍微更喜欢自己一点点。
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I’m instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.
我本性非常多疑、防备心很重，但我一直尽最大努力来避免这样。去寻找让自己能敞开心扉的动力。而我唯一的人生目标就是尽可能地开放包容。
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James的座右铭是甘地的：Be the change you want （wish）to see in the world. 成为你想看到这个世界发生的改变。
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It's that thing in a love story where you don't always like the person you're in love with, but you still love them.
在爱情中，你不会喜欢对方的方方面面，但你还是没法不爱他们。（2015年12月柯南秀中，总结教授和老万的关系）
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I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
我一直相信，我从未特别想当个演员。唯一的原因只是，我被允许这么做，而且，毕竟总得做点什么。
If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say "cut" then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that, I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.
http://www.cinemablend.com/news/Interview-Conspirator-James-McAvoy-Representing-America-Robert-Redford-24200.html
This is a bold undertaking, it’s going to take quite a lot of delicate finessing in terms of how we push the audience away from us, but then how we also draw them back in, and make them feel empathy for somebody who they have condemned in the first five minutes.
I think somebody like Robbie in “Atonement”… I loved Robbie, and I still love him, but he’s sort of not really a human being. The director quite often talked about him as like Christ, almost. He was so sort of unrealistic in his ability to suffer, you know? He was sort of otherworldly.
I mean, the two characters that I’ve played that I’ll miss playing the most are Macbeth, and Bruce in “Filth.” Not because they’re both Scottish, but because they’re both so complex, and so much victims of the world. It just shows you how corrupting the world can be, that it can create these monsters.
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Where it gets difficult is when you get two or three jobs back to back where you`re playing leads and doing 13, 14 hours a day, six days a week, and you suddenly think, hang on a minute, how can you have a life like this? Do I work to live or live to work? How can I work properly with no life to inform the work?
We`re in a horrible, repugnant place now where kids are told it`s their right and due to be hugely famous. Not good at their job, not good at anything, just hugely famous. This is not sane. Little girls think they`ll be famous if they have vast br**st implants and might as well die if they don`t.
(Talking about Andrew McCarthy and why he inspired him to be an actor) Yeah, St. Elmo`s Fire (1985) is probably the one that I love him in the most. He was really vulnerable, really open, I think. And he had floppy hair, kind of bad hair, and I had really bad hair for quite a long time when I was a kid.
I talk about this a lot when people ask me about my favorite films and things, and I try to be as honest as possible, but it is The Goonies (1985). I did watch The Goonies (1985) a lot.
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The family feud that haunts Atonement star James McAvoy
By POLLY GRAHAM
Last updated at 15:53 01 March 2008
You could hardly blame actor James McAvoy for being a little bleary-eyed as the black limo deposited him outside the Beverly Hills mansion.
It was now past 2am, but Atonement's leading man and his actress wife Anne-Marie Duff were determined not to miss Prince's post-Oscars soiree.
Despite his tiredness, McAvoy was elated. He had earlier presented an award in front of Hollywood's finest at the 80th Academy Awards ceremony.
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in the poverty-stricken area of Drumchapel in Glasgow, the actor's father, James McAvoy Snr, was hard at work atop a roof.
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James McAvoy and his father James
James McAvoy hasn't spoken to his father James in 21 years
Tired from his morning's labours, roofer McAvoy Snr was further drained by a late night of his own.
He had tried - but failed because of the eight-hour time delay with Los Angeles - to stay up to watch his son's big Oscar moment.
But the small television screen in his cramped Glasgow flat is perhaps as close as McAvoy Snr will ever get to his son.
Poignantly, he hasn't spoken to James for 21 years.
The 29-year-old actor is notorious for being fiercely private, rarely talking about his family circumstances or relationship with Anne-Marie.
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James McAvoy Anne-Marie Duff Oscars 2008
Pretty in purple: Atonement missed out on all but one Oscar, for original score, but its star James McAvoy enjoyed his night in Hollywood with wife Anne-Marie Duff. Co-star Keira Knightley didn't attend the ceremony
Perhaps it's little wonder he is less than forthcoming about his background.
For the Mail has discovered that behind the diminutive actor's seemingly effortless rise to fame lies a heartbreaking story of a broken family, a violent half-brother and a hard childhood on one of Glasgow's most notorious council estates.
Today, his lonely father can only marvel from afar at his son's success.
"It has been hard on me not being in his life, but I'm just glad that he seems happy," says James Snr, ruefully.
"I hope one day he'll get in touch. I was amazed he'd done so well."
Hearing McAvoy's clipped upper-crust English vowels as Robbie Turner in Atonement, many fans will be unaware the actor hails from such humble Scottish beginnings.
James McAvoy and Keira Knightley
McAvoy and Knightley at this year's Baftas
McAvoy spent his turbulent early life in a terrace council house on the graffiti-decorated 1950s Drumchapel housing estate, where he was raised by his maternal grandparents James and Mary Johnstone.
Butcher James and wife Mary, whom McAvoy still regularly visits, were his role models when they took him in aged seven, following his mother Elizabeth's split from his father.
Psychiatric nurse Elizabeth, or Liz as the family prefer, suffered from "poor health" so felt her son James, and daughter Joy, then five, would be better off at her parents' home a few streets away.
Roofer Mr McAvoy, 50, explains: "We were a very happy family and for a long time there were no problems.
"James was a real daddy's boy - we would go swimming and play football together. We didn't have a lot of money, but we got by."
But childhood sweethearts James and Liz "grew apart" and, by their late 30s, had divorced.
"Our son took it hard," says McAvoy Snr.
"He just wasn't the carefree little boy he'd been before."
At first, father and son continued their relationship, with James Snr taking his son swimming or to watch Celtic football team.
But when a year later James Snr moved in with a new lover, Mary McKinnon, the eight-year-old McAvoy refused to have anything to do with his father.
"I think James still had hopes of me and his mum sorting things out," claims McAvoy Snr.
"He started refusing to see me because he didn't like Mary. In the end I took a step back rather than upset him."
The young McAvoy demonstrated his steely nature when a few years later he was larking around in the playground of the St Thomas Aquinas secondary school in Drumchapel and spotted his father working on the school roof.
"James just looked away without saying a word," recalls his father sadly.
It does, however, seem odd that he was so determined to wipe out of his life the man he once idolised just because of the appearance of a new lover.
Surely there must be more to the split than the reticent James Snr would have us believe.
McAvoy Jnr has himself hinted there is another side to the story.
"I can't really be bothered with it," he told one interviewer of his father's attempts to get back in touch.
"I know what happened and I know what didn't happen."
This single-mindedness is apparent in his sudden rise to fame.
Three years ago, his most prominent role was in Channel 4's late-night cult drama Shameless.
Now, after the success of Atonement, his latest project is blockbuster action thriller Wanted, in which the unlikely heartthrob has "one epic snog" with Angelina Jolie.
To understand the extent of his transformation, perhaps we should look at McAvoy's 18-year-old half-brother Donald, currently languishing in Polmont Young Offenders' Institution near Falkirk.
Donald - James Snr's son from his now-ended relationship with his lover Mary - has never met James the actor.
But no one could blame the star for distancing himself from his violent, alcoholic brother.
Just a fortnight ago, Donald was sent to Polmont for stabbing a man eight times and, in a separate incident, threatening a 14-year-old with a hammer.
James Snr, who lives in a dingy first-floor flat, sighs: "I am standing by one son who's a maniac, but can't stand by my other son, who has done so well."
According to Mr McAvoy, Donald's problem stems from his penchant for alcohol: "He's a polite boy who doesn't cause trouble until he has been drinking."
Of course, James Jnr mixes in very different circles.
Despite failing to gain an Oscar nomination for Atonement, the actor was the toast of the post-ceremony parties.
He likes to eschew what he sees as "celebrity bulls**t", but in a rare moment of abandon, he and Anne-Marie threw themselves in to the occasion.
Generally, James is at pains to insist he is as down-to-earth as the next person.
He said at the ceremony: "I hate getting dressed up like this. I don't like being flashy.
"I drive a Nissan Micra."
A ten-year-old Micra, worth less than £1,000, it is worth adding.
Then there's the fact he and Anne-Marie live in a small flat in an unfashionable part of North London, bought for £178,000 two years ago.
Bemused locals regularly see him strolling down the road to the nearby budget supermarket.
At the Bafta ceremony last month, he was even spotted openly pocketing the place mats featuring scenes from that year's nominated films - something most image-conscious celebrities would rather die than admit to.
He and Anne-Marie enjoy an intense relationship and can rarely be lured out of their second-floor flat, preferring to read or do sudoku puzzles together.
By his own admission, McAvoy's life is "mundane, and I love it that way".
So what is holding him back from enjoying the trappings of his fame?
Psychologically, is he afraid he can never escape his upbringing?
Tellingly, he said recently: "I'm always worried that somebody is going to find me out and say: 'Ach, you're not as good as you thought you were. You are just a wee boy from Drumchapel.'"
Behind his outwardly chirpy character, which makes him a favourite on film sets, it seems memories of "the Drum" will always haunt him.
Indeed, it was a fluke that McAvoy, who once considered becoming a priest, fell into acting after director David Hayman visited his school.
On the spur of the moment, James asked to do work experience on his next film, but ended up with a part.
After winning a place at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, he progressed to small TV roles in shows such as The Bill.
Even while filming his breakthrough part in Shameless, he appeared to be in turmoil - and in danger of going off the rails.
"I was struggling to find out the truth about myself," he said, with his trademark intensity.
"I just got a bit slobbish. I drank a lot."
It was at this time his relationship with Anne-Marie began, and it is her he credits with setting him on his path to Hollywood stardom.
Anne-Marie - who, at 37, is nine years his senior - is an equally acclaimed actress, although mainly in less high-profile TV and theatre.
As soon as their relationship became public, the pair vowed never to talk about the other in interviews.
Yet when he accepted his Bafta, he dedicated it not only to his mother and grandparents, but also to "Anne-Marie, because she taught me to respect life".
They are so punctilious about their privacy that James went to extraordinary lengths to keep the details of their wedding secret.
In October 2006, he revealed that he and Anne-Marie had wed three weeks earlier "at a place people go to marry quietly".
In fact, it wasn't until a month later, at the idyllic 19th-century Drumtochty Castle in Aberdeenshire, that the pair were wed.
The secluded castle and grounds were hired at a cost of £20,000 for the entire weekend, so the couple could ensure total privacy.
They said their vows in front of 100 friends and family - although his father and brother were, of course, absent - in a touching civil ceremony.
Later, guests got stuck into a free bar and at midnight James led a rousing final group dance to The Proclaimers' single I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles).
Local DJ Joe Macindoe, in charge of the evening's music, recalls: "James told me he didn't invite all his film co-stars because he didn't want the day to be about being famous."
James and Anne-Marie's devotion to each other can be in no doubt.
But when he recently failed to wear his wedding ring to an event, the internet was awash with fans hoping it spelled the end of his marriage.
They were left disappointed when he explained he had damaged the ring in a motorbike accident and it was being repaired.
Similarly, the chemistry was said to be so electric between him and Angelina Jolie during filming of Wanted that his publicist was forced to issue a denial that the pair were anything more than colleagues.
Throughout all this, Anne-Marie remains confident that they will overcome the difficulties fame brings.
How could she not, when he replied to the question of how he knew she was The One with this glowing endorsement: "The world seemed less scary and I started to like myself a little bit more."
Perhaps with Anne-Marie's help, he is finally shaking off the weight of his past from those slight shoulders.
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I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.
James McAvoy
Pride
Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue.
James McAvoy
Good, Bad, Reason
I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake, you're dead.
James McAvoy
Car, Fact, Dead
Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.
James McAvoy
Miracle, Filmmaking
At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these movies. In 'The Polar Express,' there's a kid that doesn't really believe, and that's the threat to Christmas. In 'Santa Claus: The Movie,' jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas.
James McAvoy
Good, Movies, Christmas
I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if dye my hair and I always say 'Wow, no!' I'm 'trans-ginger.'
James McAvoy
Between, Until, Quite
Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.
James McAvoy
Feeling, Greatness, Gave
I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.
James McAvoy
Travel, Romantic, Whatever
I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.
James McAvoy
Fear, Honest, Natural
I look at the Christian Bale movies, the 'Batman' films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.
James McAvoy
Men, Movies, Christian
I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome.
James McAvoy
Good, Character, Awesome
A story about my life would be utterly dull.
James McAvoy
Life, Story, Dull
I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.
James McAvoy
Wrong, Guy, Ugly
Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.
James McAvoy
Strong, Stories, Fantastic
The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.
James McAvoy
Start, Control, Fate
When you can see kids smiling, that's one of the best things. That's why I did 'Narnia.'
James McAvoy
Best, Kids, Smiling
I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.
James McAvoy
Time, Music, Home
I don't really... go to 'the opening of an envelope.' I don't really turn up to all the events, you know what I mean? If I'm involved, I'll go, and if there's a good friend who needs support, I'll go, but otherwise... I don't go. I'm probably just a bit like my grandparents; I like staying in.
James McAvoy
Good, Mean, Friend
I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing.
James McAvoy
Mind, Enough, Husband
The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.
James McAvoy
Funny, Hurt, Action
I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don't see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that.
James McAvoy
Getting, Point, Run
Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.
James McAvoy
Time, Money, Movie
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 suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid.
James McAvoy
Work, Whatever, Somebody
For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.
James McAvoy
Humanity, Almost, Force
I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'
James McAvoy
Successful, Action, Franchise
Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.
James McAvoy
Public, Though, Stories
I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!
James McAvoy
Time, Travel, Selfish
As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.
James McAvoy
Best, Smile, Kids
I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much.
James McAvoy
Accept, Events, Red
I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.
James McAvoy
Time, Good, Once
When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.
James McAvoy
Sleep, Bed, Slept
I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.
James McAvoy
Worked, Drama
I love Christmas. I never used to. I didn't hate it, but I could take it or leave it. But, as I got to the age of 25 or 26, Christmas became quite a big deal, and I love it now. I love the food, and I love sharing time with people.
James McAvoy
Love, Time, Age
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
Work, Women, Girl
Since my worldview has expanded, I don't consider myself working class anymore, and I'm attracted to playing characters who go through a similar evolution.
James McAvoy
Since, Playing, Characters
I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety.
James McAvoy
Nice, Gets, Generally
I don't do Facebook and I don't do Twitter, and already I notice that, with some of my friends, there's a whole sphere of conversation that I'm completely on the outside of, and that's my choice. But, to a greater extent, that's what the whole of life is like.
James McAvoy
Life, Friends, Whole
I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.
James McAvoy
Work, History, Past
I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.
James McAvoy
Life, Friend, Unless
I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, 'Oh, what was that like? That must have been hard.' And you go: 'No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?
James McAvoy
Whatever, Seems, Normal
I'm having the life that I kind of hoped I might have one time, you know? I do feel like I have a place here. And, at least, I deserve it, as much as anybody else, hopefully.
James McAvoy
Life, Time, Here
My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.
James McAvoy
Again, She, Her
Nobody can be whatever they want to be. No kid can do whatever they want to do. It's a total lie. But they have the right to try and do whatever they want to do. That's their right, to aim to do whatever they want to do.
James McAvoy
Whatever, Lie, Nobody
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.
James McAvoy
Movies, Fire, Sick
I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?
James McAvoy
Good, Bad, Happen
One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.
James McAvoy
Weird, Hollywood
I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.
James McAvoy
Mind, Character, Remember
People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.
James McAvoy
Nice, Goes, Realise
I am a nerd, but I don't dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe 'Star Trek.'
James McAvoy
Maybe, Star, Except
As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.
James McAvoy
Emotional, Bit, Forceful
Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
James McAvoy
Love, Character, Played
Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.
James McAvoy
Fear, Powerful, Useful
I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
James McAvoy
Believed, Allowed
I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.
James McAvoy
Christmas, Another, Anybody
I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.
James McAvoy
Face, Period, Pieces
I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.
James McAvoy
Mind, Makes, Somebody
I judge people very quickly.
James McAvoy
Judge, Quickly
If my career isn't going that well, I'd rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: 'I'm for hire! Remember me!'
James McAvoy
Trying, Rather, Remember
I still take work if I think it's good. If I like the script, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.
James McAvoy
Work, Good, Script
I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.
James McAvoy
Age, Beyond, Stayed
I've cried a lot because of women. I cry a lot, as a person.
James McAvoy
Women, Cry, Cried
I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.
James McAvoy
Time, Tired, Giving
My favorite name of a fandom is Benedict Cumberbatch's - 'the Cumberbatches' is just the best name.
Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.
Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.
James McAvoy
Money, Enough, Difficult
That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.
James McAvoy
Playing, Characters, Main
Until I'm on the set of a film, to me it's still not for real.
James McAvoy
Until, Film
Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, 'I commit to you. I will help you in this life.'
James McAvoy
Life, Work, Marriage
I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'
James McAvoy
Living, Acting, Strange
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
Character, Able, Playing
I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.
James McAvoy
Character, Search, Fruitless
I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.
James McAvoy
Love, Art, History
I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.
James McAvoy
Teen, Film, Fire
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 at night that isn't invaded by your day.
James McAvoy
Life, Work, Home
I've seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred bucks for a photo. It's really rough.
James McAvoy
Beautiful, Trying, Seen
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
Time, Money, End
Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It's totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don't think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die.
James McAvoy
Life, Powerful, Die
When I started acting, I thought if I got one or two jobs a year I'd be lucky. So yeah, my career has gone so much farther than I ever suspected it would, and as such I feel lucky for everything I get. I feel thankful and grateful.
James McAvoy
Thankful, Career, Year
Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.
James McAvoy
Love, Time, Work
I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.
James McAvoy
Character, Loved, Playing
I decided to give up the idea of being a priest before I decided I wanted to be an actor. I considered it for a couple of weeks, really. I'm a young Catholic, do you know what I mean. You're going to consider it.
James McAvoy
Mean, Young, Idea
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 in off the street and you've got no experience, to whether you're the head chef. You can work 14 or 15-hour days. It's really, really intense.
James McAvoy
Work, Experience, Everyone
I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don't like the term 'exercising.' I feel like with sport, you're playing games. But with exercise, you're literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It's weird.
James McAvoy
Sports, Yourself, Trying
I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street.
James McAvoy
Last, Whether, Year
I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.
I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.
I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.
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.
去搜，然后并没有找到出处，搞不清是不是阿詹说的。。。
It`s really questioning where humanity is going, and is there a place for the way we perceive things now? Does that have to remain the same? Is anything constant? The world is constantly evolving, as is humanity. It`s really about evolution and taking charge of humanity`s next step.
值得质疑的是，人性呢，是否还有一个可以让给我们保存这样东西的地方？对于这些东西，是否要始终保持一样呢？有没有什么是永恒的？这个世界一直在进化，人性也是。是时候迈出新的一步了。
If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.
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"The world seemed less scary.... And I started to like myself a little bit more," (adding of how he knew they were in love with his ex-wife Anne-Marie Duff)
世界变得更可爱，而且，我开始稍微更喜欢自己一点点。
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I’m instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.
我本性非常多疑、防备心很重，但我一直尽最大努力来避免这样。去寻找让自己能敞开心扉的动力。而我唯一的人生目标就是尽可能地开放包容。
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James的座右铭是甘地的：Be the change you want （wish）to see in the world. 成为你想看到这个世界发生的改变。
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It's that thing in a love story where you don't always like the person you're in love with, but you still love them.
在爱情中，你不会喜欢对方的方方面面，但你还是没法不爱他们。（2015年12月柯南秀中，总结教授和老万的关系）
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I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
我一直相信，我从未特别想当个演员。唯一的原因只是，我被允许这么做，而且，毕竟总得做点什么。
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If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say "cut" then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that, I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.
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This is a bold undertaking, it’s going to take quite a lot of delicate finessing in terms of how we push the audience away from us, but then how we also draw them back in, and make them feel empathy for somebody who they have condemned in the first five minutes.
I think somebody like Robbie in “Atonement”… I loved Robbie, and I still love him, but he’s sort of not really a human being. The director quite often talked about him as like Christ, almost. He was so sort of unrealistic in his ability to suffer, you know? He was sort of otherworldly.
I mean, the two characters that I’ve played that I’ll miss playing the most are Macbeth, and Bruce in “Filth.” Not because they’re both Scottish, but because they’re both so complex, and so much victims of the world. It just shows you how corrupting the world can be, that it can create these monsters.
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Where it gets difficult is when you get two or three jobs back to back where you`re playing leads and doing 13, 14 hours a day, six days a week, and you suddenly think, hang on a minute, how can you have a life like this? Do I work to live or live to work? How can I work properly with no life to inform the work?
We`re in a horrible, repugnant place now where kids are told it`s their right and due to be hugely famous. Not good at their job, not good at anything, just hugely famous. This is not sane. Little girls think they`ll be famous if they have vast br**st implants and might as well die if they don`t.
(Talking about Andrew McCarthy and why he inspired him to be an actor) Yeah, St. Elmo`s Fire (1985) is probably the one that I love him in the most. He was really vulnerable, really open, I think. And he had floppy hair, kind of bad hair, and I had really bad hair for quite a long time when I was a kid.
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I talk about this a lot when people ask me about my favorite films and things, and I try to be as honest as possible, but it is The Goonies (1985). I did watch The Goonies (1985) a lot.
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The family feud that haunts Atonement star James McAvoy
By POLLY GRAHAM
Last updated at 15:53 01 March 2008
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You could hardly blame actor James McAvoy for being a little bleary-eyed as the black limo deposited him outside the Beverly Hills mansion.
It was now past 2am, but Atonement's leading man and his actress wife Anne-Marie Duff were determined not to miss Prince's post-Oscars soiree.
Despite his tiredness, McAvoy was elated. He had earlier presented an award in front of Hollywood's finest at the 80th Academy Awards ceremony.
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in the poverty-stricken area of Drumchapel in Glasgow, the actor's father, James McAvoy Snr, was hard at work atop a roof.
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James McAvoy and his father James
James McAvoy hasn't spoken to his father James in 21 years
Tired from his morning's labours, roofer McAvoy Snr was further drained by a late night of his own.
He had tried - but failed because of the eight-hour time delay with Los Angeles - to stay up to watch his son's big Oscar moment.
But the small television screen in his cramped Glasgow flat is perhaps as close as McAvoy Snr will ever get to his son.
Poignantly, he hasn't spoken to James for 21 years.
The 29-year-old actor is notorious for being fiercely private, rarely talking about his family circumstances or relationship with Anne-Marie.
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James McAvoy Anne-Marie Duff Oscars 2008
Pretty in purple: Atonement missed out on all but one Oscar, for original score, but its star James McAvoy enjoyed his night in Hollywood with wife Anne-Marie Duff. Co-star Keira Knightley didn't attend the ceremony
Perhaps it's little wonder he is less than forthcoming about his background.
For the Mail has discovered that behind the diminutive actor's seemingly effortless rise to fame lies a heartbreaking story of a broken family, a violent half-brother and a hard childhood on one of Glasgow's most notorious council estates.
Today, his lonely father can only marvel from afar at his son's success.
"It has been hard on me not being in his life, but I'm just glad that he seems happy," says James Snr, ruefully.
"I hope one day he'll get in touch. I was amazed he'd done so well."
Hearing McAvoy's clipped upper-crust English vowels as Robbie Turner in Atonement, many fans will be unaware the actor hails from such humble Scottish beginnings.
James McAvoy and Keira Knightley
McAvoy and Knightley at this year's Baftas
McAvoy spent his turbulent early life in a terrace council house on the graffiti-decorated 1950s Drumchapel housing estate, where he was raised by his maternal grandparents James and Mary Johnstone.
Butcher James and wife Mary, whom McAvoy still regularly visits, were his role models when they took him in aged seven, following his mother Elizabeth's split from his father.
Psychiatric nurse Elizabeth, or Liz as the family prefer, suffered from "poor health" so felt her son James, and daughter Joy, then five, would be better off at her parents' home a few streets away.
Roofer Mr McAvoy, 50, explains: "We were a very happy family and for a long time there were no problems.
"James was a real daddy's boy - we would go swimming and play football together. We didn't have a lot of money, but we got by."
But childhood sweethearts James and Liz "grew apart" and, by their late 30s, had divorced.
"Our son took it hard," says McAvoy Snr.
"He just wasn't the carefree little boy he'd been before."
At first, father and son continued their relationship, with James Snr taking his son swimming or to watch Celtic football team.
But when a year later James Snr moved in with a new lover, Mary McKinnon, the eight-year-old McAvoy refused to have anything to do with his father.
"I think James still had hopes of me and his mum sorting things out," claims McAvoy Snr.
"He started refusing to see me because he didn't like Mary. In the end I took a step back rather than upset him."
The young McAvoy demonstrated his steely nature when a few years later he was larking around in the playground of the St Thomas Aquinas secondary school in Drumchapel and spotted his father working on the school roof.
"James just looked away without saying a word," recalls his father sadly.
It does, however, seem odd that he was so determined to wipe out of his life the man he once idolised just because of the appearance of a new lover.
Surely there must be more to the split than the reticent James Snr would have us believe.
McAvoy Jnr has himself hinted there is another side to the story.
"I can't really be bothered with it," he told one interviewer of his father's attempts to get back in touch.
"I know what happened and I know what didn't happen."
This single-mindedness is apparent in his sudden rise to fame.
Three years ago, his most prominent role was in Channel 4's late-night cult drama Shameless.
Now, after the success of Atonement, his latest project is blockbuster action thriller Wanted, in which the unlikely heartthrob has "one epic snog" with Angelina Jolie.
To understand the extent of his transformation, perhaps we should look at McAvoy's 18-year-old half-brother Donald, currently languishing in Polmont Young Offenders' Institution near Falkirk.
Donald - James Snr's son from his now-ended relationship with his lover Mary - has never met James the actor.
But no one could blame the star for distancing himself from his violent, alcoholic brother.
Just a fortnight ago, Donald was sent to Polmont for stabbing a man eight times and, in a separate incident, threatening a 14-year-old with a hammer.
James Snr, who lives in a dingy first-floor flat, sighs: "I am standing by one son who's a maniac, but can't stand by my other son, who has done so well."
According to Mr McAvoy, Donald's problem stems from his penchant for alcohol: "He's a polite boy who doesn't cause trouble until he has been drinking."
Of course, James Jnr mixes in very different circles.
Despite failing to gain an Oscar nomination for Atonement, the actor was the toast of the post-ceremony parties.
He likes to eschew what he sees as "celebrity bulls**t", but in a rare moment of abandon, he and Anne-Marie threw themselves in to the occasion.
Generally, James is at pains to insist he is as down-to-earth as the next person.
He said at the ceremony: "I hate getting dressed up like this. I don't like being flashy.
"I drive a Nissan Micra."
A ten-year-old Micra, worth less than £1,000, it is worth adding.
Then there's the fact he and Anne-Marie live in a small flat in an unfashionable part of North London, bought for £178,000 two years ago.
Bemused locals regularly see him strolling down the road to the nearby budget supermarket.
At the Bafta ceremony last month, he was even spotted openly pocketing the place mats featuring scenes from that year's nominated films - something most image-conscious celebrities would rather die than admit to.
He and Anne-Marie enjoy an intense relationship and can rarely be lured out of their second-floor flat, preferring to read or do sudoku puzzles together.
By his own admission, McAvoy's life is "mundane, and I love it that way".
So what is holding him back from enjoying the trappings of his fame?
Psychologically, is he afraid he can never escape his upbringing?
Tellingly, he said recently: "I'm always worried that somebody is going to find me out and say: 'Ach, you're not as good as you thought you were. You are just a wee boy from Drumchapel.'"
Behind his outwardly chirpy character, which makes him a favourite on film sets, it seems memories of "the Drum" will always haunt him.
Indeed, it was a fluke that McAvoy, who once considered becoming a priest, fell into acting after director David Hayman visited his school.
On the spur of the moment, James asked to do work experience on his next film, but ended up with a part.
After winning a place at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, he progressed to small TV roles in shows such as The Bill.
Even while filming his breakthrough part in Shameless, he appeared to be in turmoil - and in danger of going off the rails.
"I was struggling to find out the truth about myself," he said, with his trademark intensity.
"I just got a bit slobbish. I drank a lot."
It was at this time his relationship with Anne-Marie began, and it is her he credits with setting him on his path to Hollywood stardom.
Anne-Marie - who, at 37, is nine years his senior - is an equally acclaimed actress, although mainly in less high-profile TV and theatre.
As soon as their relationship became public, the pair vowed never to talk about the other in interviews.
Yet when he accepted his Bafta, he dedicated it not only to his mother and grandparents, but also to "Anne-Marie, because she taught me to respect life".
They are so punctilious about their privacy that James went to extraordinary lengths to keep the details of their wedding secret.
In October 2006, he revealed that he and Anne-Marie had wed three weeks earlier "at a place people go to marry quietly".
In fact, it wasn't until a month later, at the idyllic 19th-century Drumtochty Castle in Aberdeenshire, that the pair were wed.
The secluded castle and grounds were hired at a cost of £20,000 for the entire weekend, so the couple could ensure total privacy.
They said their vows in front of 100 friends and family - although his father and brother were, of course, absent - in a touching civil ceremony.
Later, guests got stuck into a free bar and at midnight James led a rousing final group dance to The Proclaimers' single I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles).
Local DJ Joe Macindoe, in charge of the evening's music, recalls: "James told me he didn't invite all his film co-stars because he didn't want the day to be about being famous."
James and Anne-Marie's devotion to each other can be in no doubt.
But when he recently failed to wear his wedding ring to an event, the internet was awash with fans hoping it spelled the end of his marriage.
They were left disappointed when he explained he had damaged the ring in a motorbike accident and it was being repaired.
Similarly, the chemistry was said to be so electric between him and Angelina Jolie during filming of Wanted that his publicist was forced to issue a denial that the pair were anything more than colleagues.
Throughout all this, Anne-Marie remains confident that they will overcome the difficulties fame brings.
How could she not, when he replied to the question of how he knew she was The One with this glowing endorsement: "The world seemed less scary and I started to like myself a little bit more."
Perhaps with Anne-Marie's help, he is finally shaking off the weight of his past from those slight shoulders.
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I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.
James McAvoy
Pride
Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue.
James McAvoy
Good, Bad, Reason
I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake, you're dead.
James McAvoy
Car, Fact, Dead
Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.
James McAvoy
Miracle, Filmmaking
At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these movies. In 'The Polar Express,' there's a kid that doesn't really believe, and that's the threat to Christmas. In 'Santa Claus: The Movie,' jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas.
James McAvoy
Good, Movies, Christmas
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I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if dye my hair and I always say 'Wow, no!' I'm 'trans-ginger.'
James McAvoy
Between, Until, Quite
Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.
James McAvoy
Feeling, Greatness, Gave
I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.
James McAvoy
Travel, Romantic, Whatever
I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.
James McAvoy
Fear, Honest, Natural
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I look at the Christian Bale movies, the 'Batman' films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.
James McAvoy
Men, Movies, Christian
I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome.
James McAvoy
Good, Character, Awesome
A story about my life would be utterly dull.
James McAvoy
Life, Story, Dull
I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.
James McAvoy
Wrong, Guy, Ugly
Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.
James McAvoy
Strong, Stories, Fantastic
The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.
James McAvoy
Start, Control, Fate
When you can see kids smiling, that's one of the best things. That's why I did 'Narnia.'
James McAvoy
Best, Kids, Smiling
I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.
James McAvoy
Time, Music, Home
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I don't really... go to 'the opening of an envelope.' I don't really turn up to all the events, you know what I mean? If I'm involved, I'll go, and if there's a good friend who needs support, I'll go, but otherwise... I don't go. I'm probably just a bit like my grandparents; I like staying in.
James McAvoy
Good, Mean, Friend
I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing.
James McAvoy
Mind, Enough, Husband
The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.
James McAvoy
Funny, Hurt, Action
I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don't see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that.
James McAvoy
Getting, Point, Run
Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.
James McAvoy
Time, Money, Movie
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 suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid.
James McAvoy
Work, Whatever, Somebody
For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.
James McAvoy
Humanity, Almost, Force
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I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'
James McAvoy
Successful, Action, Franchise
Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.
James McAvoy
Public, Though, Stories
I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!
James McAvoy
Time, Travel, Selfish
As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.
James McAvoy
Best, Smile, Kids
I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much.
James McAvoy
Accept, Events, Red
I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.
James McAvoy
Time, Good, Once
When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.
James McAvoy
Sleep, Bed, Slept
I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.
James McAvoy
Worked, Drama
I love Christmas. I never used to. I didn't hate it, but I could take it or leave it. But, as I got to the age of 25 or 26, Christmas became quite a big deal, and I love it now. I love the food, and I love sharing time with people.
James McAvoy
Love, Time, Age
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
Work, Women, Girl
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Since my worldview has expanded, I don't consider myself working class anymore, and I'm attracted to playing characters who go through a similar evolution.
James McAvoy
Since, Playing, Characters
I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety.
James McAvoy
Nice, Gets, Generally
I don't do Facebook and I don't do Twitter, and already I notice that, with some of my friends, there's a whole sphere of conversation that I'm completely on the outside of, and that's my choice. But, to a greater extent, that's what the whole of life is like.
James McAvoy
Life, Friends, Whole
I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.
James McAvoy
Work, History, Past
I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.
James McAvoy
Life, Friend, Unless
I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, 'Oh, what was that like? That must have been hard.' And you go: 'No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?
James McAvoy
Whatever, Seems, Normal
I'm having the life that I kind of hoped I might have one time, you know? I do feel like I have a place here. And, at least, I deserve it, as much as anybody else, hopefully.
James McAvoy
Life, Time, Here
My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.
James McAvoy
Again, She, Her
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Nobody can be whatever they want to be. No kid can do whatever they want to do. It's a total lie. But they have the right to try and do whatever they want to do. That's their right, to aim to do whatever they want to do.
James McAvoy
Whatever, Lie, Nobody
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.
James McAvoy
Movies, Fire, Sick
I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?
James McAvoy
Good, Bad, Happen
One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.
James McAvoy
Weird, Hollywood
I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.
James McAvoy
Mind, Character, Remember
People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.
James McAvoy
Nice, Goes, Realise
I am a nerd, but I don't dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe 'Star Trek.'
James McAvoy
Maybe, Star, Except
As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.
James McAvoy
Emotional, Bit, Forceful
Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
James McAvoy
Love, Character, Played
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Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.
James McAvoy
Fear, Powerful, Useful
I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
James McAvoy
Believed, Allowed
I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.
James McAvoy
Christmas, Another, Anybody
I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.
James McAvoy
Face, Period, Pieces
I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.
James McAvoy
Mind, Makes, Somebody
I judge people very quickly.
James McAvoy
Judge, Quickly
If my career isn't going that well, I'd rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: 'I'm for hire! Remember me!'
James McAvoy
Trying, Rather, Remember
I still take work if I think it's good. If I like the script, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.
James McAvoy
Work, Good, Script
I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.
James McAvoy
Age, Beyond, Stayed
I've cried a lot because of women. I cry a lot, as a person.
James McAvoy
Women, Cry, Cried
I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.
James McAvoy
Time, Tired, Giving
My favorite name of a fandom is Benedict Cumberbatch's - 'the Cumberbatches' is just the best name.
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Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.
Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.
James McAvoy
Money, Enough, Difficult
That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.
James McAvoy
Playing, Characters, Main
Until I'm on the set of a film, to me it's still not for real.
James McAvoy
Until, Film
Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, 'I commit to you. I will help you in this life.'
James McAvoy
Life, Work, Marriage
I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'
James McAvoy
Living, Acting, Strange
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
Character, Able, Playing
I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.
James McAvoy
Character, Search, Fruitless
I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.
James McAvoy
Love, Art, History
I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.
James McAvoy
Teen, Film, Fire
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 at night that isn't invaded by your day.
James McAvoy
Life, Work, Home
I've seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred bucks for a photo. It's really rough.
James McAvoy
Beautiful, Trying, Seen
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
Time, Money, End
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Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It's totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don't think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die.
James McAvoy
Life, Powerful, Die
When I started acting, I thought if I got one or two jobs a year I'd be lucky. So yeah, my career has gone so much farther than I ever suspected it would, and as such I feel lucky for everything I get. I feel thankful and grateful.
James McAvoy
Thankful, Career, Year
Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe.
James McAvoy
Love, Time, Work
I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.
James McAvoy
Character, Loved, Playing
I decided to give up the idea of being a priest before I decided I wanted to be an actor. I considered it for a couple of weeks, really. I'm a young Catholic, do you know what I mean. You're going to consider it.
James McAvoy
Mean, Young, Idea
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 in off the street and you've got no experience, to whether you're the head chef. You can work 14 or 15-hour days. It's really, really intense.
James McAvoy
Work, Experience, Everyone
I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don't like the term 'exercising.' I feel like with sport, you're playing games. But with exercise, you're literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It's weird.
James McAvoy
Sports, Yourself, Trying
I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street.
James McAvoy
Last, Whether, Year
I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.
I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.
I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.
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.
去搜，然后并没有找到出处，搞不清是不是阿詹说的。。。
It`s really questioning where humanity is going, and is there a place for the way we perceive things now? Does that have to remain the same? Is anything constant? The world is constantly evolving, as is humanity. It`s really about evolution and taking charge of humanity`s next step.
值得质疑的是，人性呢，是否还有一个可以让给我们保存这样东西的地方？对于这些东西，是否要始终保持一样呢？有没有什么是永恒的？这个世界一直在进化，人性也是。是时候迈出新的一步了。
If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.
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