Ewan McGregor Quotes
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I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.
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Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?
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In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.
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Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with. I mean, I'd like to be with her in.
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I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life.
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It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.
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It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.
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My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.
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The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
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I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.
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I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.
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I can't know what I'm going to do before I'm in front of the lens. And I think that sort of makes it exciting.
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I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.
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UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way Down - protecting them from exploitation and giving them chances in life.
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Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.
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Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.
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Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget thats actually not the point at the end of the day.
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It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with.
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What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.
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I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.
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I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.
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Everyone has to understand what we're saying to one another and there's no point in me thinking the line means this and the person I'm speaking to thinks it means something else. So there's a certain amount of analyzing of text that's of course necessary.
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I’ve always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I’m interested in politics in that I’m a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can’t get into the ins and outs of it.
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If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.