James McAvoy Quotes

People hold me accountable. Before I would push people away, but that's not a way to be successful.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

I've calmed down already. I don't hook up anymore.

I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

I like to think I'm a very mature person.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person.

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

I feel proud to be a skater: it's taught me how to be emotional, more connected with myself, more mature, more understanding of my thoughts and the conversations I've had with myself.

I'm a mature person.

I was crazy. And I was too much of a diva. I'm glad I'm not like that anymore.

I'm a grown man. I don't point fingers.

I'm not going to dwell on what someone has said if it doesn't affect my life. I think that attitude helps to strengthen my character.

Anyone who has been through failed relationships - even people in successful relationships - understand that you gain perspective about what is important to you.

You accumulate emotional wisdom as you get older. You know, when you're 25, you go on blind dates with people that, when you're 50, you know to stay away from.

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

Everyone we attract into our life is a mirror for us in certain ways. All of our relationships reflect certain parts of us. We all attract certain people into our life who have developed qualities opposite to the ones we are most identified with. In other words, they mirror our disowned selves, and we mirror theirs.