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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.
Ewan McGregor
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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
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More quotes by Ewan McGregor
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.
Ewan McGregor
I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.
Ewan McGregor
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.
Ewan McGregor
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.
Ewan McGregor
I don't do things lightly, I don't take a job then just phone it in, I've never done that.
Ewan McGregor
I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
Ewan McGregor
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.
Ewan McGregor
Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.
Ewan McGregor
Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.
Ewan McGregor
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.
Ewan McGregor
I keep waiting to be invited to the hip hop party, I've never been. So if there's anyone out there who is having a hip hop party, I'd like to come.
Ewan McGregor
I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.
Ewan McGregor
I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.
Ewan McGregor
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.
Ewan McGregor
I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.
Ewan McGregor
I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.
Ewan McGregor
I've been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight.
Ewan McGregor
Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
Ewan McGregor
I'm not a superhero fan. I don't see those films. I'm not interested.
Ewan McGregor
As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.
Ewan McGregor
