Ewan McGregor Quotes Page 2
Best 60 Quotes by Ewan McGregor – Page 2 of 2
“I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.”
“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.”
“I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.”
“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.”
“I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.”
“I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.”
“I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me.”
“I've never been one who agonizes over my work.”
“I've never found acting that difficult.”
“I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.”
“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.”
“It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.”
“Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.”
“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.”
“So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.”
“Sometimes I feel like doing smaller budget stuff. When I did 'Young Adam', for instance, I'd come out of 'Black Hawk Down' and 'The Island', and I really wanted to be on a small film set. I wanted to be on something intimate and small again, and then 'Young Adam' cropped up in a pile of scripts I was sent.”
“Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.”
“The film I like the best is always the one I'm working on now or next.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.”
“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.”
“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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