“I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you get bored, or you just keep playing the same part, over and over again. Eventually audiences get bored of that, as well.” IfsWellsCareersAudienceRiskBoredTaking RisksFilth Author: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 of kids standing up and clapping, I know which one I'd choose.” IfsKnowsKidsAudienceAdultsStandingBrilliantClapping Author:James McAvoy
“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.'” PeopleIfsSometimesJobsAsksGrowsPayHairAsk MeWowBeardTransGinger Author:James McAvoy
“I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.” IfsKnowsKindReadySeasonsAwards Author:James McAvoy
“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.” IfsLittlesFilmUniverseEnjoyStageFiguresStrangeExcitingGoing To WorkFilm SetStrange Places Author:James McAvoy
“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.” IfsKnowsNeedsMeanTurnsBitsSupportEventsInvolvedOpeningStayingGood FriendGrandparentEnvelopes Author:James McAvoy
“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.” IfsThinkingRealityWantedGrowsGrowing UpHappenedAmbitionBeatsAreasDoctorsPilots Author: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 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.” PeopleIfsGivingLittlesLongRunningMovingThreeNextBitsBreakCuttingSceneLittle BitPagesTheaterNotes Author: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.” IfsKnowsNeedsMomentsJobsFunChanceForeverLuckyPicksFortuneHorribleHopefullyKicksGood JobGood FortuneBad JobsHorrible Jobs Author:James McAvoy
“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.” PeopleIfsMenWayHelpingCareDon't CareCommitThis LifeI Don't CareJoyfulOngoingJoyousCertificates Author:James McAvoy
“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 breast implants and might as well die if they don't.” IfsThinkingWellsLittlesMightKidsJobsDiesGirlDuesHorribleBreastsSaneImplantsBreast Implants Author:James McAvoy
“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.” IfsFactsMistakeDangerousCarBikeMotorbike Author:James McAvoy
“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.” IfsGivingYearsWellsNextActorsFineIndustryGive MeNext Year Author:James McAvoy
