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It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.

Ewan McGregor

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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
Actor
Film Director
Singer
Stage Actor
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Perth
Scotland
Youth
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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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Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?
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Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with. I mean, I'd like to be with her in.
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There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It's not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more.
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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 trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.
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I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
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If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it.
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No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.
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I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
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I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.
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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 left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.
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If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.
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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 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'm not a superhero fan. I don't see those films. I'm not interested.
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Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.
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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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Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.
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