Ewan McGregor Quotes
Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.
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Every dude needs a well tailored suit. I'd say well tailored suit, a leather jacket, and a pair of jeans that really fit are vital in your wardrobe.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
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Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.
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You should never turn your back on the market that gave you notoriety and be who you are and give you the numbers it gives you in the United States. I can't deny that the success I've had in the United States or the success that 'Pulling Strings' was due to my work in Latin America.
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I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.
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The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
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Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.
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In my regular life, I don't really wear much makeup unless I'm going out.
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I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.
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I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.
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It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.
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I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.
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I love Westerns!
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Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
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Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.
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Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
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Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.
