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I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you get bored, or you just keep playing the same part, over and over again. Eventually audiences get bored of that, as well.
James McAvoy
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James McAvoy
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: April 21
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James Andrew McAvoy
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The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.
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I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.
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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.
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People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.
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I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.
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