Ewan McGregor Quotes

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

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

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

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 thats actually not the point at the end of the day.

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 always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick.

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

In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.

I think theatre reminds us what we're doing as actors, because every night and every matinee day, you have an audience telling you what's working and what's not. And that's very good for us as actors to hone our skills.

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'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.

I grew up in a very small town in Scotland, a little place called Crieff which is beautiful and it's at the foothills to the highlands. It's a very beautiful part of the world. It's a small, I suppose quite conservative place.

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

I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.

Conservative's the last thing I am.

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

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.

It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it.

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.

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.

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

When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that.