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Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

Ewan McGregor

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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
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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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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 is always a nice feeling when you are challenged by a scene and you walk out of trailer and you go on set going I don't know. And then half an hour later you're walking back.
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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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I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.
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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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People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like What? You're married? Strange reaction to have. Proves what people's ideas about marriage are. We're having a baby. What? As if it's the end of the world. Of course, it's the start of a brilliant world.
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I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.
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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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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'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.
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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'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.
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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 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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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 love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.
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I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.
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I love music and I always seem to have a tune in my head.
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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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