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I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.

Ewan McGregor

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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
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I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
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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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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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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 love music and I always seem to have a tune in my head.
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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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I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
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Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.
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I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.
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You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you do somehow in front of a camera.
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I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.
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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 don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.
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Conservative's the last thing I am.
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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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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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I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
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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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