Ewan McGregor Quotes

Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.

Ewan McGregor

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• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Call

• We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • God
  • Why
  • Him

• Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!

  

  Said Nursi
  • Brotherhood
  • Traditions
  • Verses

• You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Imagination

• Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Need
  • Belief
  • Heroes

• I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Girl
  • Red
  • Hot

• My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Best
  • Study
  • Blood

• My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Fast

• I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Lazy

• The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • People
  • Health
  • Care

• The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Friend
  • Temptation
  • Meeting

• Lewis Black taught me stand-up.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Black
  • Me
  • Stand

• We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Family
  • Experience

• I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • May
  • Dumb
  • Blonde

• I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Now, you see, if you understand what I'm saying, with your intelligence, and then take the next step and say 'But I understood it now, but I didn't feel it.' Then, next I raise the question: Why do you want to feel it? You say: 'I want something more', because that's again that spiritual greed. And you could only say that because you didn't understand it.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Why
  • Question
  • Spiritual

• Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Taken

• Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Love
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• Everybody's on their toes and focused on what we're about to do, and then there's this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can. Everyone opens up to one another right away. That's a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Up
  • Job
  • Moment

• You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Actors
  • Citizens
  • Cards

• I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Different
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.

  

  Ewan McGregor
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