Ewan McGregor Quotes
I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.
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I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
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In my show I announce, ‘People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.’
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It has been claimed that Dr. Weishaupt was an atheist, a Cabalistic magician, a rationalist, a mystic; a democrat, a socialist, an anarchist, a fascist; a Machiavellian amoralist, an alchemist, a totalitarian and an 'enthusiastic philanthropist.' (The last was the verdict of Thomas Jefferson, by the way.)
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I turned six in 1977. Youth athletics then was nothing like this, and I wondered how things changed so much. I started looking at our societal emphasis on sports, using the most tangible metric by which we measure emphasis: money.
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A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
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Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.
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My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.
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I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.
