Ewan McGregor Quotes
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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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Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.
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I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick.
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I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.
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I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
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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 fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.
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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 not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.
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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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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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There's nothing worse than shooting a scene you haven't rehearsed.
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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 remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.
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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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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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There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.
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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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This middle-budget drama movies are just gone.
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The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.
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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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It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.
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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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The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.