Ewan McGregor Quotes

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

Ewan McGregor

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• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

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• We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are often purposeful - if not consciously so; a way to test the strength of a bond and establish trust in a new parent.

  

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• It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

  

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• It is important not to trust people too much.

  

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• If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.

  

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• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  

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• I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

  

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• I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut.

  

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• Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.

  

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• I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.

  

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• People don't care anymore because they don't believe in us; they don't trust us. And that's why we should change politics, not just accept the cynical frame that, 'Well, that's just politics.'

  

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• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

  

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• There's all these proofs that go on of identity, of records, and they're quite non-digital. The blockchain innovation really allows us to take everything where there's record keeping, everything where there's trust around record keeping, and it allows us to make that digital, immutable, permanent, and global.

  

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• I trust people until they give me a reason not to trust them.

  

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• There are many wonderful themes from 'Moana' that people discover, and I also hope they're inspired to go on their own journeys and to learn more about the Polynesian culture, because we're pretty great! I'm so proud of the people the filmmakers talked to - the Oceanic Trust.

  

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• But what I've also really liked about it is that it not only has Marvel set about... if they just were slavishly trying to bring the comic books to life, literally, I don't the movies would work, because it's different to see something on screen in three dimensions with actors, and they kind of, I believe, are constantly trying to find a way to absolutely respect the source material and at the same time, transform it into something that works and that you believe on screen.

  

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• Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.

  

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• If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.

  

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• When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.

  

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• I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Trust
  • Actors
  • Reader