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Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.

Ewan McGregor

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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
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If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.
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My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.
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I'm not a superhero fan. I don't see those films. I'm not interested.
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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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I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.
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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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The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.
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In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.
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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.
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When you've got a date on your calendar saying that you will be putting this in front of people in four weeks, that will get your nerves good, yeah.
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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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Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.
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I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
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