Ewan McGregor Quotes - Page 4

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• If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it.

  Ewan McGregor

  Running, People, Playing Music

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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

  Silly, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.

  Ewan McGregor

  Independent, Cinema, Bigs

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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.

  Ewan McGregor

  Thinking, Years, Play

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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.

  Ewan McGregor

  Mexican, Sound, Accents

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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.

  Ewan McGregor

  People, Nerves, Calendars

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I'm not a superhero fan. I don't see those films. I'm not interested.

  Ewan McGregor

  Superhero, Fans, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I keep waiting to be invited to the hip hop party, I've never been. So if there's anyone out there who is having a hip hop party, I'd like to come.

  Ewan McGregor

  Party, Hip Hop, Waiting

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.

  Ewan McGregor

  Self, Self Conscious, Conscious

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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

  Ewan McGregor

  Worry, Actors

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I was quite interested to do television series and I started exploring an idea of a longer commitment, a new idea, a new TV show that would've meant a longer commitment but I opened my mind up.

  Ewan McGregor

  Commitment, Tv Shows, Ideas

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

  Ewan McGregor

  Lucky, Auditions, Scene

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

  Ewan McGregor

  Mind, Needs, Want

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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.

  Ewan McGregor

  Directors, Rehearsal, Calming

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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.

  Ewan McGregor

  Dream, Play, Cameras

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.

  Ewan McGregor

  Kids, Romance, Film

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• I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies, and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible.

  Ewan McGregor

  Clothes, Naked, Movement

  "Naked talent" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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• I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.

  Ewan McGregor

  Baby, Children, Philosophical

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• He`s quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen].

  Ewan McGregor

  Girl, Stars, Moving

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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.

  Ewan McGregor

  Sorry, Kids, Parenting

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• I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

  Ewan McGregor

  Inspirational, Dance, Weekend

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• I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

  Ewan McGregor

  Acting, Easier

  "Ewan McGregor interview: Mr Sunshine vs the apocalypse". Interview with Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.

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• No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.

  Ewan McGregor

  Thinking, People, Naked

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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.

  Ewan McGregor

  Drama, School, Years

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• I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

  Ewan McGregor

  Princess, Play, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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