Ewan McGregor Quotes

I wanted to go and explore the world, I guess. And I suddenly thought well, I'll just do it.

I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.

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].

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.

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.

I won't buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

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

I don't really like to know what I'm going to do before I do it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I can't know what I'm going to do before I'm in front of the lens. And I think that sort of makes it exciting.

It is always a nice feeling when you are challenged by a scene and you walk out of trailer and you go on set going I don't know. And then half an hour later you're walking back.

I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

I was getting in trouble at school. I wasn't happy. The school was very much a school that created people for commerce and it wasn't an arty school.

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.

I wanted to make sure that I was making films about the world. So I thought well, I should go and see it. I'm spending a lot of time in - we call them caravans in Britain.

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.

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

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

I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.

There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.

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.

There's very few directors that know what that rehearsal's for. And often it's just about calming down the director. If he could see it or she sees it, she goes oh, it's going to be okay.

You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

I'm not a superhero fan. I don't see those films. I'm not interested.

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.

I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.

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.

I keep waiting to be invited to the hip hop party, I've never been. So if there's anyone out there who is having a hip hop party, I'd like to come.

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.

I love music and I always seem to have a tune in my head.

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.

I've sort of done a play every four or five years I guess if I look back in my career. And I think that's good.

I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.

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

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

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

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.

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

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