James McAvoy photographed by Sven Bänziger
Respect yourself. Don’t look for it from anyone else. Don’t try and receive the adoration of others and acceptance from others because you’ll never actually feel any actual benefit even when you get it. Respect yourself and accept yourself and then other people can try and accept you. Until you respect yourself, you’ll get nothing.
I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when its difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.
James McAvoy at the ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Press Conference at the Lanesborough Hotel on May 7, 2016 in London, England.
James McAvoy. April 21, 1979
“I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.”
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.
As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they’re the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid’s face is the best thing.
