Top 166 Quotes & Sayings by Ewan McGregor - Page 3

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

A million pounds sounds like a lot of money now that I'm saying it. But in terms of moviemaking, it's not a lot of money. And yet you can see what can be done with that, with the talent of a great cinematographer and great director and actors.

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

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.

You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you do somehow in front of a camera.

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

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.

I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.

When you've got a date on your calendar saying that you will be putting this in front of people in four weeks, that will get your nerves good, yeah.

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.

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.

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'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies, and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

I think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know.

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.

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.

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

Seasons may change winter to spring, but I love you until the end of time Come what may, come what may, I will love you until my dying day Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace Suddenly my life doesn’t seem such a waste, it all revolves around you. And there’s no mountain too high no river too wide Sing out this song and I’ll be there by your side Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide But I love you until the end of time

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

This middle-budget drama movies are just gone.

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].

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.

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.

There's nothing worse than shooting a scene you haven't rehearsed.

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

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

I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.

Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.

I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to become an Ambassador. It's a new and different venture for me and one that I know will widen my wider perspective on life. I'm in a position to use the recognition from my work to do something really positive for children

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.

There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.

UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They're helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in all of the schools in the area to be aware of mines and what to do if they find one, and if somebody's hurt, not to rush in - all of the essential things that kids need to know.

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.

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

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.

I don't do things lightly, I don't take a job then just phone it in, I've never done that.

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.

I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn`t think. I just put my hat on Clara`s head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn`t figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby`s wearing a hat with the word Pervert written on it and these people were like, `There`s Satan! There`s Satan out with his kid!` And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there.

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.

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

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.