James McAvoy
James McAvoy

I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

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
James McAvoy

I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if dye my hair and I always say 'Wow, no!' I'm 'trans-ginger.'

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

I've done enough for a while and people get fed up of seeing you, but apart from that, although I'm young, I need a bit of rest. You could say I have become a house husband. It's not a new man thing, it's just largely a boring man who doesn't mind staying in the house thing.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, 'Oh, what was that like? That must have been hard.' And you go: 'No, it wasn't.' It was just completely actually normal because the new norm seems to be whatever you make of it, doesn't it?

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

I've cried a lot because of women. I cry a lot, as a person.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

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
James McAvoy

My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake, you're dead.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

I judge people very quickly.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.

James McAvoy
James McAvoy

I am a nerd, but I don't dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe 'Star Trek.'