Ewan McGregor Quotes
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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'm always interested in playing different people, in different situationsIt doesn't matter to me whether someone is in love with a man or a woman. I find the idea of love and romance interesting. I'm a sucker for it. I like playing someone who's falling in love because I like the sensation of it. People do extraordinary things when they're falling in love.
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I've never worked with an acting coach, no.
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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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At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
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This middle-budget drama movies are just gone.
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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'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 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.
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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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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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Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.
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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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Conservative's the last thing I am.
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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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The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
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I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.
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I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.
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I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.
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You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you do somehow in front of a camera.
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From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
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There's something that happens where you go, if you're lucky, goodness me, from film to another film to another film. And you can sort of feel that if you step off that treadmill, it might all go horribly wrong and you might never be employed again, you know. And I suddenly thought that that's not necessarily the case. And I also thought we make drama as actors about people in the world and that if you are on that treadmill, you start making films about other films.
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When you've got a date on your calendar saying that you will be putting this in front of people in four weeks, that will get your nerves good, yeah.
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I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.