James McAvoy
James McAvoy

Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

Until I'm on the set of a film, to me it's still not for real.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

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
James McAvoy

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

James McAvoy
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 physicality, which is why it's so tragic now, but the way he used his body so much as well, I loved.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

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
James McAvoy

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
James McAvoy

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
James McAvoy

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.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

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.