Movies by Quotes - James McAvoy

Movie

Character

Year

Quote

2021

"I know I'm a bad dad. I know I'm never here. I know he can't rely on me. But it's not my fault he's gone missing, darling."

2019

"Memory, it's a funny thing. People want to believe they are what they choose to remember; the good stuff, the moments, the places - the people we all hold on to. But sometimes .. sometimes, we are what we wish we could forget."

2017

"There's only one question left to ask. Who won? And what was the fucking game anyway?"

2017

"Only through pain can you achieve your greatness! The impure are the untouched, the unburned, the unslain. Those who have not been torn have no value in themselves and no place in this world!"

2015

"Igor, you and I shall be at the heart of a scientific enterprise that will change the world. We shall create life out of death!"

2013

"Scotland. This nation brought the world television, the steam engine, golf, whiskey, penicillin, and of course, the deep-fried Mars bar. It is great being Scottish. We're such a uniquely successful race."

2013

"I was really good, but not good enough. And not good enough really isn't very good."

2013

"I'm paid to catch crooks, not get them elected."

2011

"I've got a phobia of being beheaded - and heights, and speed, and reindeer, and buttons."

2011

"There's so much more to you than you know, not just pain and anger. There's good in you too, and you can harness all that. You have a power that no one can match, not even me."

2011

"Let's kick some grass!"

2008

"What did he do to deserve to die? You don't know. I didn't know if he was bad. I didn't know if he was evil. I didn't know anything about him."

2007

"I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library."

2006

"You're a child. You have the mind and ego of an angry, spoiled, uneducated child. And that's what makes you so fucking scary."

2005

"And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?"