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I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.

Ewan McGregor

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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
Actor
Film Director
Singer
Stage Actor
Voice Actor
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Scotland
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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.
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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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I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.
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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.
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There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.
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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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I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.
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My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.
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I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.
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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 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.
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Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.
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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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I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.
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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 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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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.
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UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way Down - protecting them from exploitation and giving them chances in life.
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I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.
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