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.

Ewan McGregor

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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.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• India should be an exporter of technology.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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  • Should
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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.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Live
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  • Words

• 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.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • You
  • Know
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• I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • World
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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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• Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

  

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• Love can be founded upon Nature only.

  

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• We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

  

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• We encourage people to run if they're so inclined. We don't actively recruit like we do with the legislative candidates.

  

  Nancy Anderson
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  • Run
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• I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

  

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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.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Acting
  • Face
  • I Believe