Quotes by Ewan McGregor

About Ewan McGregor:

Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish actor who has had success in mainstream, indie and art house films. His first professional role was in 1993, when he won a leading role in the Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar. He is best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting (1996), the young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999–2005), poet Christian in the musical film Moulin Rouge! (2001), and Dr. Alfred Jones in the romantic comedy-drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011). He received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy for both Moulin Rouge! and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.
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I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

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

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

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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.

Ewan McGregor

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

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.

Ewan McGregor

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!

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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.

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I found my partner, my life partner, and I really am in love with my wife, and we have a lovely time, and we share a long history together and children together, and that's it.

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

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

Ewan McGregor

I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.

Ewan McGregor

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

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.

Ewan McGregor

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.

Ewan McGregor

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 ...

Ewan McGregor

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

Ewan McGregor

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 se...

Ewan McGregor

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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I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

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Author Bio

  • NameEwan McGregor
  • DescriptionBritish actor
  • BornMarch 31, 1971
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Singer
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire; Donostia Award