Best 127 quotes of Ewan Mcgregor on MyQuotes

Above all things I believe in love.

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.

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.

As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

...as an actor there`s nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It`s so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

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

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.

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.

Everyone has to understand what we're saying to one another and there's no point in me thinking the line means this and the person I'm speaking to thinks it means something else. So there's a certain amount of analyzing of text that's of course necessary.

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

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

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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

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

I don't like being told that's where you, you know, if you walk on set and somebody was "okay, you're here and you're going to walk over there on this line." And my reaction is always how do you know? How do you know that's what I'm going to do? How do any of us know?

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

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

I don't want to make decisions about what I'm going to do before I'm doing it because I base my acting off my partner and off the other people in the scene.

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.

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.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again!

I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.

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

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

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.

I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.

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

I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

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

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

I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

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.

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.

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 not a superhero fan. I don't see those films. I'm not interested.