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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.
Ewan McGregor
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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
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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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It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.
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I've never worked with an acting coach, no.
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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.
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I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
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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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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'm not a superhero fan. I don't see those films. I'm not interested.
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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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I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
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