170 Quotes by James McAvoy

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man’s action franchise like ‘Bourne.’

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

It’s weird when you’re watching yourself in a film – you can’t really detach yourself from the experiences you’ve had that day. You’re never watching the film as a proper punter.

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.

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.

I think I’m losing my hair finally. And, yeah, that’s kind of all I know.

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.

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.

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.