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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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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 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 don't like being told that's where you, you know, if you walk on set and somebody was okay, you're here and you're going to walk over there on this line. And my reaction is always how do you know? How do you know that's what I'm going to do? How do any of us know?
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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 love music and I always seem to have a tune in my head.
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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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Conservative's the last thing I am.
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