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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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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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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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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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
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You don't ever want to seem less than a person.
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You get into these executive offices, and people say, 'Oh, we have this project. Wait a minute, guys, we need diversity - let's choose a black actor for this; let's choose a Hispanic actor for this,' instead of saying, 'That's not diverse, that's just normal. That's what makes up America.'
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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When Ralf Rangnick was in charge, you could see he was out to force a pressing game.
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I don't think you should give away your name and face to something you don't believe 100-percent in.
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I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.
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A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.
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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.
