“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
“The script is the most important thing for me. I'm advised that other things are important too, and they are. The director that you'll be working with is hugely important, and the cast that are with you is really important as well. But, for me, the thing that gets my heart excited and really makes me invested in something or not is just the quality of the script.” WellsHeartImportantQualityMy HeartDirectorsImportant ThingsScriptsCastsExcited Author:James McAvoy
“When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.” WellsSleepBedAnxietyNails Author: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.” WayWellsBodyUsedStuffPerformingTragicFoxes80sPhysicalityMichael J Fox 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
“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
