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Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.

Ewan McGregor

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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
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I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.
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I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.
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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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Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.
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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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Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.
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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 hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.
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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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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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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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Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.
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Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.
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It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.
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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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UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They're helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in all of the schools in the area to be aware of mines and what to do if they find one, and if somebody's hurt, not to rush in - all of the essential things that kids need to know.
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It is always a nice feeling when you are challenged by a scene and you walk out of trailer and you go on set going I don't know. And then half an hour later you're walking back.
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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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It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.
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I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.
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