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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.

Ewan McGregor

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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
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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 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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In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.
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Conservative's the last thing I am.
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Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.
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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.
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I'm not a superhero fan. I don't see those films. I'm not interested.
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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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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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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 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?
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