Ewan McGregor Quotes

I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.

Ewan McGregor

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• Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Positive

• DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Same
  • Privacy
  • E-mail

• To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

  

  Nas
  • Version
  • Owning
  • Creatively

• I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Time
  • Great
  • Year

• Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Great
  • True

• We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • World
  • Stars
  • Content

• People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Comedy
  • Stage
  • Show

• I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Say
  • Paint
  • Hot

• I've always taken direction pretty well.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Pretty
  • Taken
  • Always

• Cricket was my reason for living.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Reason
  • Living
  • Cricket

• You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Past
  • Energy
  • Best

• Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Strength
  • Temptation

• I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Real
  • Think
  • Comedy

• Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Past
  • Identity
  • Challenges

• I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Home
  • Game
  • Attention

• You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Cold
  • Snow

• I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Cold

• Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Conscious
  • Weight
  • Aspect

• No live performance can ever be perfect, and that's what keeps you on your toes - it pushes you to practice harder, show up for that 8 A.M. ballet class, and walk through the stage door every night just to have the chance to do it all again.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • Up
  • Live
  • Night

• My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.

  

  Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band
  • Work
  • Art
  • Beauty

• You’re never going to get the same track twice from us and we hope our music stands the test of time because of that fact.

  

  Nathan Vincent Duvall Disciples
  • Music
  • Track
  • Twice

• I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Energy
  • Know
  • Actor

• I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Actor
  • Celebrity
  • I Hate