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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What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
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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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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
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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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I haven't seen a quarterback play a perfect game yet.
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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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Any kid in my position coming from being an All-American and all that wants to be the guy that makes all the plays coming into their freshman year.
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Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.
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I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.
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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.
