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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
Ewan McGregor
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When I moved to London, you could park your motorcycle in the pavement, on the sidewalk. We would stay here and just leave it and go about your business. But now something was sort of encroaching in London. There's cameras everywhere. You can't do anything. You're not allowed to be in a group.
Ewan McGregor
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I was getting in trouble at school. I wasn't happy. The school was very much a school that created people for commerce and it wasn't an arty school.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.
Ewan McGregor
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I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.
Ewan McGregor
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Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
Ewan McGregor
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I wanted to make sure that I was making films about the world. So I thought well, I should go and see it. I'm spending a lot of time in - we call them caravans in Britain.
Ewan McGregor
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Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.
Ewan McGregor
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I wanted to go and explore the world, I guess. And I suddenly thought well, I'll just do it.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
