James McAvoy movie quotes

View Quote [cycling through Trelew, to some cows in a field] Happy Christmas, cows!

View Quote It doesn't matter how we got here. The sleigh on the roof, the-the jingle bells, the 8 reindeer. Gwen would've never seen that.

View Quote [struggling to row the boat way across the Atlantic Ocean to Trelew, grunting and singing] Jingle bells / This boat smells / 3,000 miles to go

View Quote You know when you have a dream and you're half-awake, but still in the fringe of your brain. Then you open your eyes and you're so damned glad it was a dream? [His father's gun falls to the floor] This was NOTHING like that.

View Quote This is me taking control — from Sloan, from the Fraternity, from Janice, from billing reports, from ergonomic keyboards, from cheating girlfriends and sack-of-shit best-friends. This is me taking back control — of my life. [Breaks the fourth wall, turning to gaze at the audience] What the **** have you done lately?

View Quote Have you ever thought about doing things differently?

View Quote The Beast is a sentient creature who represents the highest form of humans' evolution. He believes the time of ordinary humanity is over. I hope this makes you feel calm. You will be in the presence of something greater. I was gonna ask for your last shirt, but I won't. Because tonight is a sacred night. It's almost over.

View Quote The broken are more evolved.

View Quote You like to make fun of us, but we are more powerful than you think.

View Quote Are you trying to trick me? Et cetera? I'll tell on you!

View Quote Hedwig: Dennis and Miss Patricia, they believe in the Beast, and what he can do.
Casey Cooke: [Trembling voice] Have you... seen him? The... Beast?

View Quote Hedwig: [After awkwardly kissing Casey, sits there staring into her eyes] You might be pregnant now. Am I a good kisser?
Casey Cooke: [Nods patiently] Yes.
Hedwig: I like dancing. You like dancing? I - I - I like dancing to my CD-player in my room. Kanye West is my main man. I - I've got my CD-player set up in my room right - right - right next to my window. I'm like... [imitates dancing to the beat] Mm. Mm. Mm. "You've got the moves..."

View Quote We are glorious! We will no longer be afraid. 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! They are asleep!

View Quote You are different from the rest. Your heart is pure! Rejoice! The broken are the more evolved. Rejoice.

View Quote The Beast: We are what we believe we are.
Hedwig: Holy shit, this is so cool! They are gonna believe we exist now, right?
Dennis: They are gonna have to.
Hedwig: So, what do we do now?
Patricia: [Referring to The Beast] We trust in him. He'll protect us. Look at what he can do. Let him show the world how powerful we can be.

View Quote Don't worry; he's not allowed to touch you. He knows what you're here for. He listens to me.

View Quote "In the sun we will find our passion. In the sun, we will find our purpose." I read that in a sympathy card in a supermarket. It was for a funeral, but I thought it was beautiful.

View Quote The Beast: We are what we believe we are.
Hedwig: Holy shit, this is so cool! They are gonna believe we exist now, right?
Dennis: They are gonna have to.
Hedwig: So, what do we do now?
Patricia: [Referring to The Beast] We trust in him. He'll protect us. Look at what he can do. Let him show the world how powerful we can be.

View Quote The Horde keeps obsessing about the ones who haven't suffered. I don't know where they're going with this, but it scares me.

View Quote Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. 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. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.

View Quote [to Briony]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 **** wolves.

View Quote [to Briony]How old do you have to be before you know the difference between right and wrong? Do you have to be eighteen before you can own up to a lie? There are soldiers of eighteen old enough to be left to die on the side of the road! Did you know that?

View Quote Almost all aberrations of nature are possible.

View Quote This is Africa. You meet violence with violence. Anything else, and you're dead.

View Quote Idi Amin: You dare try to poison me? After everything I gave you? I am Idi Amin! President-for-life and ruler of Uganda. I am the father of Africa.
Nicholas Garrigan: You're a child. You have the mind and ego of an angry, spoiled, uneducated child. And that's what makes you so **** scary.

View Quote Who's your gnomie?

View Quote [To Juliet, after she tells him to leave] I'm not going anywhere.

View Quote [Practicing flirting with Juliet] Nice name. It really goes with your...eyes.

View Quote You can't un-**** what's been ****. You know, a beautiful Italian girl once said to me, "David, you can't un**** what's been ****." Women are always getting in the way of progress, aren't they?

View Quote So, what have I learned after all this time? After all the sleepless nights, lying to friends, lovers, myself? Playing this crooked game in this crooked town filled with backstabbers and four-faced liars? I'll tell you what I've learned. One thing and one thing only. I **** love Berlin!

View Quote Ironic. The news will tell them there will be no more secrets. But you and I, we both know that's not true. This world is run on secrets.

View Quote It was the White Witch. She was the one who made it always winter, always cold. She gave orders.

View Quote Mr. Tumnus: Always winter, never Christmas.

View Quote Lucy: Winter's not all bad. There's ice skating...and snowball fights...and oh! Christmas!
Mr. Tumnus: Not here. Here it's always winter, never Christmas. It's been a long winter.

View Quote Girl: Piccy?
Carl: Just a bitty.

View Quote Carl: Change of venue girls, your mums or mine?
Peter: Out. [To Lizzie] I am so sorry.
Carl: Might want to change the sheets.

View Quote Carl: Now, tell her about the tickets.
Mrs. Colt: Tickets?
Peter: Oh, God, you really are a wanker, aren't you?

View Quote There is no Satan. No God. Only Humanity. Only ME!

View Quote Oh my brother Henry forgive me. I have wronged you, for this is not life. This is not life. You are not life! Live! Live!

View Quote 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!

View Quote [from a trailer] No ship, Sherlock.

View Quote No one mustn't know about this, but you're all going to get smashed tomorrow.

View Quote Gnomeo: We're in trouble.
Lady Bluebury: We know, dear. We didn't want to worry the others.
Lord Redbrick: How bad is it?
Gnomeo: This guy, Moriarty. He's gonna smash us all tomorrow night.
Female gnome with big ears: We're going to be smashed!? This guy said we're all going to be smashed tomorrow!

View Quote [first lines] Mutants: born with extraordinary abilities, and yet still, they are children stumbling in the dark, searching for guidance. A gift can often 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 the greatest gift of all, powers beyond imagination, and they may think they are meant to rule the world.

View Quote [Charles and Alex visit Moira]
Moira MacTaggert: Ever since the world found out about mutants in '73, there have been cults who see them as some kind of second coming or a sign of God. I was tracking one of them, they call themselves "Ashir En Sabah Nur". Named after an ancient being they believe to be the world's first.
Alex: "World's first..." what?
Moira: The world's first mutant.
Alex: I thought mutants didn't evolve till this century.
Moira: That's the common theory, yes, but these guys believe that the first mutant was born tens-of-thousands of years ago and they believe he will rise again. [shows the evidence] They've been searching ancient sites all around the world for clues. These hieroglyphs describe the specific set of powers greater than any man can possess.
Professor Charles Xavier: Do you think he lived in all that time?
Moira: Yes and no. They believe that he had the ability to transfer his consciousness from body to body and whenever he was close to death, he would just take on a new body. Some of these made with the bodies of mutants, enabling him to take their powers amassing various abilities over the years.
Charles: An all-powerful mutant?
Moira: Exactly. And wherever this being was, [shows the picture of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse] he always had four principle followers, disciples, protectors he would imbue with powers.
Alex: Like "the four horsemen... of the Apocalypse?" He got that one from the Bible?
Moira: Or the Bible got it from him? And wherever he ruled, eventually it would end in disaster. Cataclysm, some kind of... "Apocalypse".
Charles: The end of the world.

View Quote [at the rebuilt Xavier Institute]
Charles: The world's already begun rebuilding its arsenals.
Erik Lehnsherr: It's human nature, Charles.
Charles: I still have hope.
Erik: [chuckles] Oh, yes. "Hope".
Charles: I was right about Raven. I was even right about you.
Erik: What about the rest of the world? Doesn't it ever wake you up in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they'll come for you and your children.
Charles: It does, indeed.
Erik: What do you do when you wake up to that?
Charles: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul that comes to my school looking for trouble. [Erik nods.] You sure I can't convince you to stay?
Erik: [smiles] You're psychic, Charles. [begins to leave] You can convince me to do anything.
Charles : Goodbye, old friend.
Erik: Good luck, Professor. [leaves]