Ewan McGregor Quotes
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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 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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Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.
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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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Conservative's the last thing I am.
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I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.
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I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.
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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'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 don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.
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Above all things I believe in love.
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This middle-budget drama movies are just gone.
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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 trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.
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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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There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.
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I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.
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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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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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As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.
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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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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.