James McAvoy Net Worth

James McAvoy's Quotes

• We're in a horrible, repugnant place now where kids are told it's their right and due to be hugely famous. Not good at their job, not good at anything, just hugely famous. This is not sane. Little girls think they'll be famous if they have vast breast implants and might as well die if they don't.
• Where it gets difficult is when you get two or three jobs back to back where you're playing leads and doing 13, 14 hours a day, six days a week, and you suddenly think, hang on a minute, how can you have a life like this? Do I work to live or live to work? How can I work properly with no life to inform the work?
• 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.
• 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.
• [Talking about Andrew McCarthy and why he inspired him to be an actor] Yeah, St. Elmo's Fire (1985) is probably the one that I love him in the most. He was really vulnerable, really open, I think. And he had floppy hair, kind of bad hair, and I had really bad hair for quite a long time when I was a kid.

Interesting Facts about James McAvoy

1. Trained at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now known as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).
2. McAvoy and Jessica Brooks were the first actors to tackle the complex roles Leto II & his twin sister Ghanima Atreides, the strange prescient Children of Dune (2003) based on Frank Herbert's novel of the same name. Although Leto and Ghanima were only nine years old in the novel, their ages were bumped up about seven years, making them about sixteen for the Sci-Fi Channel's miniseries in March 2003.
3. His younger sister is Joy McAvoy, also an actress who appeared as 'Estelle' alongside McAvoy in Filth (2013).
4. His parents divorced when he was seven.
5. As a child, he wanted to become a missionary because he wanted to travel the world.
6. After his parents divorced, McAvoy and his sister moved in with their maternal grandparents, James and Mary Johnstone.
7. After growing up in Glasgow, he moved to London at the age of 20.
8. Before he went into acting, he wanted to join the Navy.
9. While filming The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Georgie Henley never saw McAvoy in his Mr. Tumnus costume before filming their scenes together. Henley's scared reaction upon seeing McAvoy is genuine surprise.
10. Former roommate of Jesse Spencer when they were both living in London.
11. Fan of Celtic Football Club.
12. Joe Wright considered him for a role in his Pride & Prejudice (2005). Both director and actor refused to name the part.
13. Born to James McAvoy, a bus driver-turned-builder, and his then-wife Elizabeth (Johnstone), a psychiatric nurse.
14. Attended St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary in Jordanhill, Glasgow. Also attended by Tom Mannion.
15. Enjoys science fiction, including Star Trek (1966) and the new Battlestar Galactica (2004).
16. Was ranked #18 on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' the actors list. (2008).
17. While growing up, he wanted to be a priest.
18. Chosen as one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive for 2007.
19. Worked out to improve his physique for the action scenes in Wanted (2008). However he suffered several injuries during shooting, including a twisted ankle and an injured knee.
20. Said the script for Atonement (2007) was the best he had ever read.