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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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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
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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 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'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 don't do things lightly, I don't take a job then just phone it in, I've never done that.
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It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with.
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I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.
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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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The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.
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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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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 don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.
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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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I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.
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Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.
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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've never worked with an acting coach, no.
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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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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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I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
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For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.
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