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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.

Ewan McGregor

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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
Actor
Film Director
Singer
Stage Actor
Voice Actor
Perth
Scotland
People
Young
Chances
Giving
Opportunities
Children
Mets
Long
Youth
Way
Ones
Unicef
Life
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Hope
Protecting
World
Opportunity
Exploitation

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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 never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.
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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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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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The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.
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Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.
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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 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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I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.
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From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
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I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.
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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.
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It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love music and I always seem to have a tune in my head.
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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
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I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
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