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When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

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James McAvoy
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: April 21
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Voice Actor
Glasgow
Scotland
James Andrew McAvoy
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I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.
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I don't really... go to 'the opening of an envelope.' I don't really turn up to all the events, you know what I mean? If I'm involved, I'll go, and if there's a good friend who needs support, I'll go, but otherwise... I don't go. I'm probably just a bit like my grandparents I like staying in.
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[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.
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