James McAvoy movie quotes

“A gift can also be a curse. Give someone wings and they may fly too close to the sun. Give them the power of prophecy and they may live in fear of the future. Give them powers beyond imagination, and they may think they're meant to rule the world.”
James McAvoy - Professor Charles Xavier

Sometimes I wonder if he ever looked into my baby blue eyes and asked himself "Did I just father the most insignificant asshole of the twenty-first century?".

James McAvoy - Wesley

“- Igor: It's alive.
- Victor Von Frankenstein: Isn't that rather obvious?”
Daniel Radcliffe - Igor
James McAvoy - Dr. Frankenstein

“- Professor Charles Xavier: Mutation took us from single-celled organisms to being the dominant form of reproductive life on this planet. Infinite forms of variation with each generation, all through mutation.
- Co-Ed: Then let's reclaim that word. Mutant and proud.”
James McAvoy - Professor Charles Xavier
Annabelle Wallis - Co-Ed

“- Mary Surratt: I'm a Southerner. I'm a Catholic and a devoted mother above all else. But I am no assassin.
- Frederick Aiken: Your freedom is gonna require greater assurances than that.”
Robin Wright - Mary Surratt
James McAvoy - Frederick Aiken

“You'd be forgiven for thinking me mad - wandering into your house barefoot, or snapping your antique vase. The truth is, I feel rather light-headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don't think I can blame the heat. Will you forgive me?”
James McAvoy - Robbie Turner

“The only thing I do care about is the fact that I can't care about anything.”
James McAvoy - Wesley

“- Erik Lehnsherr: Us turning on each other, it's what they want. I tried to warn you, Charles. I want you by my side. We're brothers, you and I. All of together, protecting each other. We want the same thing.
- Professor Charles Xavier: My friend. I'm sorry, but we do not.”

Michael Fassbender - Erik Lensherr
James McAvoy - Professor Charles Xavier

“Six weeks ago I was ordinary and pathetic. Just like you. Who am I now? An account manager, an assassin, just another tool that was mind fucked into killing his father. I'm all of these, and I'm none of these. Who am I now? This is not me fulfilling my destiny. This is not me falling in my father's footsteps. This is definitely not me saving the...” (continue)(continue reading)

James McAvoy - Wesley

“- Djonjo: You deserve to die. But dead, you can do nothing. Alive, you might just be able to redeem yourself.”

David Oyelowo - Djonjo
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan

“- Professor Charles Xavier: Erik, you said yourself we're the better men. This is the time to prove it. There are thousands of men on those ships. Good, honest, innocent men. They're just following orders.
- Erik Lehnsherr: I've been at the mercy of men just following orders. Never again.”

James McAvoy - Professor Charles Xavier
Michael Fassbender - Erik Lensherr

“How old do you have to be before you know the difference between right and wrong? Do you have to be eighteen? Do you have to be eighteen before you can bring yourself to own up to a lie? There are soldiers of eighteen-years-old enough to be left to die on the side of the road!”

James McAvoy - Robbie Turner

“You're not an assassin of fate, Sloan. You're just a thug who can bend bullets.”
James McAvoy - Wesley

“- Sloan: Still trying to figure out how you are?
- Wesley: This is not me. This is just a motherfucking decoy.”
Morgan Freeman - Sloan
James McAvoy - Wesley

“Do you know when you have a dream and you're half-awake, but still in the fringe of your brain, and when you open your eyes you're so damn glad it was a dream?”
James McAvoy - Wesley

“- Professor Charles Xavier: Are you gonna tell me what's the matter or I have to read your mind?
- Raven: You promised me you would never do that.
- Professor Charles Xavier: Until recently, I never had to use my powers to know what you were thinking Raven.
- Raven: You know Charles, I use to think it's gonna be you and me against the world. But...” (continue)(continue reading)
James McAvoy - Professor Charles Xavier
Jennifer Lawrence - Raven

“- Idi Amin: But a man that shows fear... he is weak, and he is a slave.
- Nicholas Garrigan: Well... if you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping.”
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan

“Junior high must've been kind of tough, but it doesn't give you the right to treat your workers like horseshit, Janice.”
James McAvoy - Wesley

“Five years ago you didn't care about telling the truth. You and all your family, you just assumed that for all my education, I was still little better than a servant, still not to be trusted. Thanks to you, they were able to close ranks and throw me to the fucking wolves!”

James McAvoy - Robbie Turner

“For the lawyer as well as the soldier, there is an equally imperative command. That duty is to shelter from injustice the innocent, to protect the weak from oppression, and when necessity demands, to rally to the defense of those being wronged.”
James McAvoy - Frederick Aiken

“- Justice Wylie: You believe she's innocent?
- Frederick Aiken: I don't know. But if we don't get a proper trial, we never will.”
John Cullum - Justice Wylie
James McAvoy - Frederick Aiken

“- Frederick Aiken: Why did I fight for the Union if my rights aren't assured? You tell me.
- Edwin Stanton: Fine words for rallying the troops, not for running a nation. They assassinated our president, and someone must be held accountable. The people want that.”
James McAvoy - Frederick Aiken
Kevin Kline - Edwin Stanton

“- Robbie Turner: You'll go to your parents as soon as you can and tell them everything they need to know to be convinced that your evidence was false. You'll go and see a solicitor and make a statement and have it signed and witnessed and send copies to us. Is that clear?
- Briony - 18 years old: Yes.
- Robbie Turner: Then you'll write a...” (continue)(continue reading)
James McAvoy - Robbie Turner
Romola Garai - Briony - 18 years old

“You know there are people, beautiful people, you just wish they could see you in a different setting, a different place. Instead of where you are, what you've become. But most of all, you wish you weren't such a pussy, for wishing for things that'll never change.”
James McAvoy - Wesley

“- Cross: Wesley, listen to me...
- Wesley: Shut the fuck up. You don't get to talk to me. You don't get to talk to me!
- Cross: Everything they told you... was a lie. You're my son.”
Thomas Kretschmann - Cross
James McAvoy - Wesley