James McAvoy Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: April 21, 1979

Topics

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My father, he couldn't read or write.

Joe R. Lansdale

FatherWriteReadHe

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

Robert Rodriguez

ProblemsCareTake CareYouCreate

I want to race as long as I'm having fun, it's competitive and healthy, and who knows when that, you know, date comes when that's not happening anymore.

Jeff Gordon

FunHaving FunLongYouHealthy

Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.

Steve Tisch

TrustBuildingFoundationYouBuild

There was a point when I told my daddy I didn't want to go hunting anymore.

Jason Isbell

GoWantHuntingPointDaddyAnymore

Nobody ever dared with Frank, because he had such mood swings, and you never knew how he was going to react. But I could tell the minute I saw him that he was going to be in my corner.

Don Rickles

YouNobodyMoodReactNeverHim

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

Dinaw Mengestu

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The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Dean Koontz

TimeHandsClockDigitalAwayUs

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Anne Sullivan

ChildrenGreatParentingMistake

Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

Arthur Lowe

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Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.

William Kircher

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I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts.

Phil Harris

SongEatingRememberYouSeeingGot

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