Ewan McGregor Quotes

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Ewan McGregor

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 31, 1971

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

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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.

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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.

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Conservative's the last thing I am.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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 was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.

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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.

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I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.

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I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

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I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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