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 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 en...

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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].

Ewan McGregor

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.

Ewan McGregor

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

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I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get i...

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

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

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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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I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

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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.

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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.

Ewan McGregor

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

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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.

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When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.

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

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Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

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

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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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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.

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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