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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.

Ewan McGregor

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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
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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 think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know.
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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.
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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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It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.
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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.
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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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I don't really like to know what I'm going to do before I do it.
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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 think theatre reminds us what we're doing as actors, because every night and every matinee day, you have an audience telling you what's working and what's not. And that's very good for us as actors to hone our skills.
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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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