Ewan McGregor Quotes

I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.

Ewan McGregor

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• Acting
• I Love
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• I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Words

• I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Different
  • Architecture
  • Advertising

• I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Comedians

• When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • People
  • Better
  • Friendship

• I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Dad

• Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • You
  • Style
  • Air

• My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'

  

  Becky Lynch
  • School
  • Brother
  • Thought

• Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writing
  • Joy
  • Process

• My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Bible

• I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we (humans) do.

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • Cold

• I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Good
  • Petty

• If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

  

  Anna Held

• You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog.

  

  Bob Parsons

• I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.

  

  Dannel Malloy

• I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Thought
  • Acting
  • See

• I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.

  

  Adele
  • Bad
  • Drama
  • I Love

• As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness. I covered it with being funny and tough, but it's hard to be tough when you're making your cot in your bunk over soaking wet sheets and acting like nobody can smell anything.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Kids
  • Acting
  • Summer

• In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.

  

  Beatrix Campbell
  • Politics
  • I Love
  • Republican

• I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Proud
  • Acting
  • I Love