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.

Ewan McGregor

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• Script
• Directing
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• I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Army

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
  • America
  • Think
  • Future

• When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Kids
  • You
  • Mom

• 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.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

  

  Raf Simons
  • She
  • Way
  • Fashion

• The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Perfect
  • Mistake
  • Learn

• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Violence

• 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.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • World
  • Different
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Celebrity

• 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.

  

  Hank Snow
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Folly

• Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Why
  • Always
  • Thought

• I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Feeling
  • Looking
  • Turn

• The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Just
  • Fantasy

• 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.’

  

  Lady Gaga
  • True

• John Clellon Holmes … and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said, 'You know, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said 'That's it, that's right!'

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Lost

• 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.)

  

  Adam Weishaupt
  • Atheist

• If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for him? Personally, I might not disqualify him out of hand; one out of three Americans believe we have had Visitors and, hey, who knows? But I would certainly want to ask a few questions.

  

  Bill Keller
  • Believe
  • Space
  • Hand

• Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

  

  James Allen
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'

  

  Donald Byrd
  • School
  • Band
  • Waiting

• There is no need to compare your life (or standard of living) with either a fictitious life in the future or some rose-tinted view of the past. You

  

  Mark Williams
  • Life
  • Future
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Money
  • Script
  • Directing