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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.

Ewan McGregor

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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
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When I moved to London, you could park your motorcycle in the pavement, on the sidewalk. We would stay here and just leave it and go about your business. But now something was sort of encroaching in London. There's cameras everywhere. You can't do anything. You're not allowed to be in a group.
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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 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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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 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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I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.
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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'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.
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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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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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