Ewan McGregor Quotes
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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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I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.
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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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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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...as an actor there`s nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It`s so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.
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I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
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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 really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.
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I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.
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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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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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UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They're helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in all of the schools in the area to be aware of mines and what to do if they find one, and if somebody's hurt, not to rush in - all of the essential things that kids need to know.
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The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.
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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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For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.
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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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When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.
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I don't want to make decisions about what I'm going to do before I'm doing it because I base my acting off my partner and off the other people in the scene.
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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'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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Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.
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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 not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.
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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.