Ewan McGregor famous quotes

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Children #Fall #Parent

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Love #Pain #Heart

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Believe #Boring #Politician

Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with. I mean, I'd like to be with her in
-- Ewan McGregor

#Beautiful #Mean #Berries

...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

#Play #Actors #Moments

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?
-- Ewan McGregor

#Jeans #Who Cares #Why Not

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Beautiful #Two #Directors

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

#Fighting #People #Being Positive

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Adventure #One Day

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Falling In Love #Sex #Children

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Drinking #What Matters #Smoking

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Real #Light #Moments

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
-- Ewan McGregor

#London #Towns #Plans

I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Lying #Love You #People

Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget thats actually not the point at the end of the day.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Frustration #The End Of The Day #Stuff

My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.
-- Ewan McGregor

#People #Feelings #Different

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.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Falling In Love #Love Is #Men

It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.
-- Ewan McGregor

#People #World #Fantastic

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Tricky #Deals #Personal Life

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Believe #Foundation #Directors

It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Important #Spirit #Youth

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Trust #Jobs #Giving

I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies, and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Clothes #Naked #Movement

I've been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Knights #Light #Years

Above all things, I believe in love.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Believe #I Believe #Believe In Love

If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Kids #Want #Produce

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Guitar #Scotland #Band

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Baby #Children #Philosophical

I especially love my Moto Guzzi.
-- Ewan McGregor

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Imagination #Scripts #Firsts

I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Successful #Thinking #Keys

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Thinking #Careers #People

I don't do things lightly; I don't take a job then just phone it in - I've never done that.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Jobs #Phones #Done

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Drama #School #Years

Conservative's the last thing I am.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Lasts #Conservative

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
-- Ewan McGregor

#School #Play #Acting

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Fall #Years #Four

No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Thinking #People #Naked

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Princess #Play #Interesting

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Proud #Fierce #Scottish

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Dance #Weekend

I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Acting #Easier

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
-- Ewan McGregor

#School #Way #Kind

I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Thinking #Important #Done

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Ideas #Existence #Solitary

I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Gliding #Diving #Scuba

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Theatre #Thrill

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Years #Firsts #Collars

I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There's nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Simple #Eggs #Appreciate

Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Serious #Politician #Craze

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Children #Father #Force

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Men #Thinking #Work Out

Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Thinking #Horny #Band

I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Rocks #Ideas #World

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?
-- Ewan McGregor

#Party #Elephants #Singing

I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Golf #Yesterday #Firsts

There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Scotland #Cracks #Scots

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.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Done #Remember #Shallow

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Kids #Romance #Film

I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Scotland #Trainspotting #Toilets

I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Sometimes #Accents

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

#Thinking #People #Worry

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.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Running #Black And White #Romantic Love

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.
-- Ewan McGregor

#School #Aggravation #Theatre

A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Ideas #Tanks #Needs

I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Good Movie #Hollywood #Want

He`s quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen].
-- Ewan McGregor

#Girl #Stars #Moving

I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn`t think. I just put my hat on Clara`s head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn`t figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby`s wearing a hat with the word Pervert written on it and these people were like, `There`s Satan! There`s Satan out with his kid!` And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Baby #Kids #Thinking

I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Acting #Proud

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Needs #Goes On #Scripts

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

#Baby #Ideas #People

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!
-- Ewan McGregor

#Sorry #Fighting #Light

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
-- Ewan McGregor

#Song #Stars #Spring

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.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Sorry #Kids #Parenting

No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Daughter #Mother #Moving

UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way Down - protecting them from exploitation and giving them chances in life.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Children #Opportunity #Giving

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

#Children #Opportunity #Perspective

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

#Hurt #Children #Drama

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
-- Ewan McGregor

#Parenting #Inspire #Difficult

I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.
-- Ewan McGregor

#People #Interesting #Important

I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life
-- Ewan McGregor

#Children #Determined #Unicef