Ewan McGregor Quotes

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

Ewan McGregor

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• The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Mystery

• I want to help people; that's it.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Help
  • Want

• Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

  

  Kajol
  • Hand
  • Goals
  • Step

• One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Like
  • Characters
  • Films

• This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stars
  • New
  • India

• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?

  

  Warren Spector
  • Earth
  • Eyes
  • Amazing

• If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Tennis

• I don't need to impress children.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Children
  • Need
  • Impress

• Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Read
  • Hear

• So don't be fooled, so don't get lied to Love was always cruel And don't act strange, don't be a stranger It happened to me, now it's happening to you But if you'd take that train underwater Then we could talk it through

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Christian

• See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

  

  James Daly
  • Great
  • Business

• I'm a human entropy producer.

  

  Dean Kamen

• I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Time
  • Book
  • Single

• I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Female
  • Equal
  • Comics

• Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Time
  • Great
  • Success

• Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My sister was always supportive. When I first moved to L.A., she was like 'I know you can do it!' But my parents, in the beginning, not so much. They were kinda like, 'I'll believe it when I see it.' But when I actually started booking things, my dad was like, 'Oh, I knew it all along.'

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • Believe
  • She
  • Parents

• I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

  

  Freddy Fender
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Success
  • Deal
  • Personal Life