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Ewan McGregor Quotes

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

– Ewan McGregor

I don’t think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.

– Ewan McGregor

I’ve played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I’ve always played guitars and drums and stuff.

– Ewan McGregor

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

– Ewan McGregor

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

– 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!

– Ewan McGregor

Conservative’s the last thing I am.

– Ewan McGregor

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

– Ewan McGregor

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 into the ins and outs of it.

– Ewan McGregor

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.

– Ewan McGregor

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

– Ewan McGregor

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.

– Ewan McGregor

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

– Ewan McGregor

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

– Ewan McGregor

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.

– Ewan McGregor

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

– Ewan McGregor

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something – that solitary existence.

– Ewan McGregor

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

– Ewan McGregor

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.

– Ewan McGregor

I’m not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.

– 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 to do in the first place.

– 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 secondary.

– Ewan McGregor

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.

– Ewan McGregor

I’ve never found acting that difficult.

– 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 fiercely proud to be Scottish.

– Ewan McGregor

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.

– Ewan McGregor

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.

– Ewan McGregor

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.

– Ewan McGregor

I’m just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

– Ewan McGregor

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