Ewan McGregor Quotes

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'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.

This middle-budget drama movies are just gone.

I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.

I think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know.

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

We'll get there!

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

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

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.