Ewan McGregor Quotes
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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.
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I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.
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I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.
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I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
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I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
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I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.
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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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I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.
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When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.
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I'm always interested in playing different people, in different situationsIt doesn't matter to me whether someone is in love with a man or a woman. I find the idea of love and romance interesting. I'm a sucker for it. I like playing someone who's falling in love because I like the sensation of it. People do extraordinary things when they're falling in love.
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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.
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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 wanted to go and explore the world, I guess. And I suddenly thought well, I'll just do it.
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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.
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I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.
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It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.
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Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.
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There's nothing worse than shooting a scene you haven't rehearsed.
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I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.
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A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.
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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.
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I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.
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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.
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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.
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I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.
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I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?
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There's something that happens where you go, if you're lucky, goodness me, from film to another film to another film. And you can sort of feel that if you step off that treadmill, it might all go horribly wrong and you might never be employed again, you know. And I suddenly thought that that's not necessarily the case. And I also thought we make drama as actors about people in the world and that if you are on that treadmill, you start making films about other films.
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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.
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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.
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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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