That is truly interesting. I am very grateful for the awards that I have won, but I have never gone into my study, looked at my awards and thought: "Oh, I am a good actor!" If you could strategise your way to the top, then everybody would be successful and playing the leads in movies where they're commanding millions of dollars. So I thought about that, but then I did start getting more luck with girls about that time, and that sort of put the kibosh on wedding myself to God. This is not sane. Somebody gives you an award, it's great because you can find another great job and maybe win another one, but it doesn't stay with me. [on his grandparents' views about his career] You know, they never told me, "You can be whatever that you want to be" because I think they felt - and I feel - that that's a lie, nobody can be whatever they want to be. While growing up, he wanted to be a priest. [on "Macbeth"] It's not got a Scottish voice. In the playground we take on a persona and in the classroom we take on a persona.

It will open your mind, it's not about being an actor, it's about having an experience that is magical, that transcends our boundaries and the things that keep us down. Do I work to live or live to work? My carefree attitude disappeared when my son was born four years ago.

[on his role in "Macbeth"] The whole idea is that the dialogue, the poetry, is the most violent, hellish, gory, war-torn of all of his plays - and my personal opinion is you can't come on stage and go [affects plummy accent] "Ah, so foul and fair a day I've never seen!" My grandparents were always very strict with me, my mother, too. His mother lived with them intermittently. Why suddenly believe them now? Like the route of fine art is cave drawings and the route of novels and great literature is the first scribblings of writing or whatever... but the route of theatre is, I think, human sacrifice. Passed his car driving test at the age of 30, although he had ridden a motorcycle for many years. We don't have affairs, we don't turn up to parties, we don't fall out of places drunk. [on his biggest fashion mistake] Going through a waistcoat phase while I was at secondary school. Then I'm not an actor any more," you know? It's a total lie, but they have the right to try to do whatever they want to do. It's written for an English voice. I learnt that from my grandparents. There are better actors than me who are struggling, and there are worse actors than me who are coining it in. At the beginning of my career I just set out to hopefully dupe people into giving me any kind of work, and that was a lot of character work. I hadn't sort of said to myself "Right, this is the rest of my life," because you can't, because there is still a big massive part of me saying, "What if the work dries up tomorrow? [on dealing with the media] It's a difficult thing - you've got to talk about yourself but you've also got to try not to say anything about yourself. I was determined not to take any money off my mother or my grandparents after I was 18. We take on different roles in different friendship groups and social scenarios. James McAvoy Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest James McAvoy photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at Rotten Tomatoes! But I do still use my motorbike. We survived on sausage and fizzy drinks. McAvoy's mother suffered from poor health and subsequently sent him to live with his maternal grandparents, Mary and James Johnstone, in the nearby Drumchapel area of Glasgow. Even [on mobile/cell phones] I feel like I'm one of those people who's part of the last generation that got to be a full-blown adult and not have a mobile phone.

I've made biscuits, cookies, cupcakes and stuff like that for my kid recently, but other than that I can't really bake bread or anything. That's a frightening world to live in because as soon as you get one tiny pocket of society creating all the arts, or culture starts to become representative not of everybody, but of one tiny part, and that's not fair to begin with, but it's also damaging for society. From the age of seven or eight, I was quite sensitised to my ability to be fairly manipulative. Applicants will need to demonstrate that financial cost is the main barrier to their accessing pre-higher education drama training at the RCS. If you look at Ireland, people were willing to fight and die for their f*****g independence 100 years ago. to you, you think "Great!" a list of 10 images McAvoy has a younger sister named Joy, and a younger half-brot… I feel like that quite a lot. When I know I'll be making another blockbuster in a couple of years' time, I can afford to say yes to smaller projects with smaller budgets. I didn't even think about acting until I was acting. If I had to take one, I'd like something Scottish like Hamish or Cameron. That was always very important to me, not to be in debt to anyone, money-wise. I've only done it once on the red carpet. I love going to art galleries. or 'Yeah, um, this thing came up.'

[on his role in "Macbeth"] When I kick a door and I run on the stage, it's easy from that moment, but right now I'm sitting here going, 'How am I gonna do this tonight?' We're not that interesting.


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