Ewan McGregor Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 that's actually not the point at the end of the day.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

We'll get there!

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

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.

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

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

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

I think it's quite tricky for actors to release albums. It's difficult, because I'm an actor, you know, I'm not a musician. I love singing, but I don't have a big repertoire of songs that I've written; I mean, I've got a few, but nothing that I could fill an album with, and I don't want to do it just for the sake of it.

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

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

You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I always think that the creative conversation between director and actor is what leads to good work.

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.

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.

Above all things, I believe in love.

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

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

...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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I've never been one who agonizes over my work.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

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

I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.

The film I like the best is always the one I'm working on now or next.

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.

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

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.

For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

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

I especially love my Moto Guzzi.

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

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.

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

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

There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It's not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more.

I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

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.

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.

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.

I've never found acting that difficult.

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

Sometimes I feel like doing smaller budget stuff. When I did 'Young Adam', for instance, I'd come out of 'Black Hawk Down' and 'The Island', and I really wanted to be on a small film set. I wanted to be on something intimate and small again, and then 'Young Adam' cropped up in a pile of scripts I was sent.

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

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.

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