Ewan McGregor Quotes
I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.
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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
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I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.
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Everyone has a story if you just listen and shut up.
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I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
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I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.
