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I don't look like Susan Boyle!
James May
Like
Look
Susan
I don't like to think I am a celebrity; I am just a bloke on the telly.
James May
Think
Telly
Like
Am
Bloke
Celebrity
Just
It does cost a lot of money to make high-quality TV in exotic locations. I know everyone thinks we've been given a massive sack full of money and gone off and bought Lamborghinis and gone off for lunch, but it isn't actually like that.
James May
Money
Gone
Lunch
Everyone
Locations
TV
Cost
Given
High-Quality
Sack
Bought
Like
Know
Massive
Make
Does
Been
Lot
Off
Exotic
Full
Actually
Thinks
The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.
James McAvoy
Funny
Myself
Welcome
Hurt
Action
Funny Thing
Punch
Bits
Never
Ankle
Stuff
Like
Done
Trance
Movie
Wanted
Little
Really
Certain
Certain Extent
Action Movie
Even
Thing
Extent
I like cooking, but I don't think I could be a chef. Everyone from the ground up does terrible hours, whether you've just walked in off the street and you've got no experience, to whether you're the head chef. You can work 14 or 15-hour days. It's really, really intense.
James McAvoy
Work
You
Experience
Cooking
Think
Everyone
No Experience
Could
Head
Days
Like
Hours
Terrible
Chef
Does
Got
Off
Up
Walked
Intense
Just
Whether
Really
Ground
Street
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.
James McAvoy
You
Jokes
Fire
Films
Sick
Teenage
Those
Favorite
Favorite Films
About
Like
Arse
Lot
Get
American
Movies
Storytelling
American Movies
Now
I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.
James McAvoy
Life
Work
Day
Home
You
Somewhere
Back
Invaded
Come
Like
Got
Means
Your
Keep
Night
I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.
James McAvoy
Hero
Fire
Breakfast
Club
Films
Teen
Ten
Lead
Underdog
Like
Liked
Because
Always
Up
Wanted
Grew
Really
Film
Play
Watching
Starter
Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.
James McAvoy
Work
Me
You
Women
Sex
Girl
Out
Constantly
About
Seemed
Take
Knew
Like
Talk
Until
How
Friends
Very
Quickly
Trying
Interest
Them
Much
Really
Figured
I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen to be suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid.
James McAvoy
Work
Me
Somebody
Naked
Whatever
Tell
Run
Guy
Put
Disappointed
Like
Undergo
Chicken
Very
Did
Afraid
Keen
Suggested
I don't do Facebook and I don't do Twitter, and already I notice that, with some of my friends, there's a whole sphere of conversation that I'm completely on the outside of, and that's my choice. But, to a greater extent, that's what the whole of life is like.
James McAvoy
Life
Conversation
Facebook
Twitter
Sphere
Some
Outside
Like
Greater
Friends
Choice
Notice
Whole
Extent
I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don't see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that.
James McAvoy
Me
People
Queen
Picture
Think
Unless
Run
See
Something
Point
Take
Hysteria
Like
Freeway
Affair
Get
Getting
Going
Where
Really
Sweden
Across
Ever
Level
I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?
James McAvoy
Good
People
Good People
Bad Things
Think
Bad
Seeing
Only
Weird
Like
Know
Happen
Not Interested
Which
Interested
Them
Why
Things
Things Happen
I'm having the life that I kind of hoped I might have one time, you know? I do feel like I have a place here. And, at least, I deserve it, as much as anybody else, hopefully.
James McAvoy
Life
Time
You
Else
Kind
Hoped
Hopefully
One Time
Having
Feel
Like
Know
Least
Anybody
Anybody Else
Place
Might
Much
Deserve
Here
If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that; I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.
James McAvoy
People
Three
Long
Move On
Organic
Say
Bit
Run
Give
More
Scene
Through
Like
Doing
Go
Up
Quite
Often
Move
Break
Afterwards
Theater
Little
Little Bit
Notes
Cut
Cuts
Then
Really
Next
Page
Pages
I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'
James McAvoy
Action
Franchise
Like
Bourne
Matt
Matt Damon
Hugely
Want
Successful
I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'
James McAvoy
You
Strange
Picture
Same Thing
Living
Photographers
Pretend
Find
Magazine
Taken
Like
Always
Doing
Go
Same
Shoots
Just
Anyway
Acting
Your
Why
Thing
I still take work if I think it's good. If I like the script, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.
James McAvoy
Work
Good
Think
Take
Like
Still
Script
The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.
James McBride
Politics
People
Rugged
Made
Out
John
John Brown
Brown
Like
Were
West
Did
Either
Who
Speeches
I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
James McBride
Jazz
Living
Earn
Books
Stay
Something
Horse
Like
Involving
How
Rode
I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.
James McBride
Me
You
Book
Joke
Style
Tell
Kind
Dirty
Writers
Never
He
Like
Know
Wrote
Smoke
Around
Been
Bunch
Person
Sitting
Just
James Brown was the Monday-to-Friday guy. He was the hardest man in show business. He was like your dad and your uncle: He showed up, and he hit hard.
James McBride
Man
Business
Uncle
Brown
Guy
He
Like
Up
Hit
James
James Brown
Your
Hard
Show
Show Business
Dad
Hardest
I go through periods listening to specific types of music. Because I'm a musician, listening to music is... it's a bit like work for me. A little bit.
James McBride
Work
Music
Me
Listening
Types
Bit
Musician
Through
Like
Periods
Because
Go
Little
Little Bit
Specific
I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.
James McBride
Me
History
People
Abnormal
About
Like
Normal
Normal People
Situations
Where
Stories
Appeals
James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.
James McBride
Life
Class
Matters
Our
About
Brown
Like
Talk
Metaphor
America
James
Inability
Race
Really
Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.
James McBride
You
Millionaire
King
Stephen King
Like
Make
Author
Being
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