James McAvoy Quotes

The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they usually don't use a bad photo, so you can't worry too much. So my main concern is that I just look a bit more like myself.

I didn't know how to smile for the paparazzi.

Part of my job is getting dressed up and having my picture taken and the best way of dealing with that is finding a way of enjoying it.

It's my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover.

I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.

Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

I think to be a good model, you have to enjoy having your picture taken, and I never really did.

People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with being an actor in the public eye, but I haven't found a comfortable way to deal with it.

I can't just wear whatever when I go out because somebody might want to take a picture. People are, like, taking pictures of me in my car when I'm driving. It's crazy. I kind of hate it sometimes.

I hate getting my photograph taken; just because I'm a musician doesn't mean I should have to sell my soul and have pictures of myself on stage with a red face and sweaty armpits plastered over 'Heat!' every week. I'm not a model.

Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.

I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

I like my mug shot. I think I have a really great mug shot. It looks like a magazine shoot.

If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

I hate having my picture taken.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.