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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.
Ewan McGregor
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It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.
Ewan McGregor
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People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like "What? You're married?" Strange reaction to have. Proves what people's ideas about marriage are. "We're having a baby." "What?" As if it's the end of the world. Of course, it's the start of a brilliant world.
Ewan McGregor
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I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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I especially love my Moto Guzzi.
Ewan McGregor
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I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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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.
Ewan McGregor
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Conservative's the last thing I am.
Ewan McGregor
