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Ewan McGregor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 31
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I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.
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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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There's very few directors that know what that rehearsal's for. And often it's just about calming down the director. If he could see it or she sees it, she goes oh, it's going to be okay.
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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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Conservative's the last thing I am.
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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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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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As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.
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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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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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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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Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.
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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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I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.
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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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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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The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.
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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 sort of done a play every four or five years I guess if I look back in my career. And I think that's good.
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