Ewan McGregor Quotes
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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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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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As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.
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I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.
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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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Conservative's the last thing I am.
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Seasons may change winter to spring, but I love you until the end of time Come what may, come what may, I will love you until my dying day Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace Suddenly my life doesn’t seem such a waste, it all revolves around you. And there’s no mountain too high no river too wide Sing out this song and I’ll be there by your side Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide But I love you until the end of time.
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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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At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
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There's nothing worse than shooting a scene you haven't rehearsed.
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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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There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.
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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 love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.
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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 trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.
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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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This middle-budget drama movies are just gone.
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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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Above all things I believe in love.
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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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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'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've never worked with an acting coach, no.