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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 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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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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Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?
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A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.
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I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.
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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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I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
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If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.
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I've been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight.
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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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I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.
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Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.
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I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.
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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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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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My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.
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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 certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
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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.
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For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.
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