Ewan McGregor Quotes

I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.

Ewan McGregor

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• Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Eye

• As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

  

  T. V. Carpio
  • Up
  • Trying
  • New

• I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Want
  • Myself

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Life
  • My Life
  • I Can

• Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Law
  • Rich

• I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Want
  • Success
  • Personal

• I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Wish
  • Ever
  • Else

• I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Love
  • Education

• I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Think
  • Cry
  • Watch

• There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • God
  • Job
  • America

• Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Way
  • Technology
  • Changing

• I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Train
  • Through
  • Basics

• When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Help
  • Cancer
  • Jump

• I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Love
  • Home

• Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.

  

  Karen Handel
  • People
  • Scrappy

• You're part of an American family, and we're going to pull for you.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Family
  • American
  • Part

• A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Trouble
  • Millions
  • Candle

• The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good at it, but I just can't do it. I'd probably end up punching them in the face rather than shaking their hand, so it's best that I stay out of their way. I can't engage with that level of bullshit. Which is a shame, really, and in a way it would help if I could, but I just can't. I admire the fact that Bono can, and can walk away from it smelling of roses.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • People
  • Helping
  • Shame

• Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Dream
  • Problem
  • Idea

• Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Love
  • Feels
  • Place

• I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Idea
  • Town
  • Don't Like