Ewan McGregor Quotes
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I was quite interested to do television series and I started exploring an idea of a longer commitment, a new idea, a new TV show that would've meant a longer commitment but I opened my mind up.
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Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
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I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.
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I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.
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I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
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I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.
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It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.
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I don't do things lightly, I don't take a job then just phone it in, I've never done that.
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I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
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You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.
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This middle-budget drama movies are just gone.
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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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I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.
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I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.
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I have worked with a lot of great directors but my favorites are all entirely different from one another. They don't go about it the same way.
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I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.
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I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again!
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I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.
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At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
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I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.
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No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.
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I've been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight.
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I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn`t think. I just put my hat on Clara`s head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn`t figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby`s wearing a hat with the word Pervert written on it and these people were like, `There`s Satan! There`s Satan out with his kid!` And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there.
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I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to become an Ambassador. It's a new and different venture for me and one that I know will widen my wider perspective on life. I'm in a position to use the recognition from my work to do something really positive for children.