110+ Ewan McGregor Quotes (Charismatic, Versatile And Talented)

Ewan McGregor is a Scottish actor and producer. He is best known for his roles in Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge!, and the Star Wars prequel trilogy. He has also starred in numerous other films, including Big Fish, Angels & Demons, and Beauty and the Beast.

Top 10 Ewan McGregor Quotes

1. Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.
2. I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.
3. Above all things I believe in love.
4. My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.
5. 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.
6. Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.
7. ...as an actor there`s nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It`s so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.
8. What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.
9. Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.
10. I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

Ewan McGregor Short Quotes

• I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
• Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.
• The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
• I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.
• Conservative's the last thing I am.
• I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.
• I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.
• I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.
• I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
• I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.

Ewan McGregor Famous Quotes And Sayings

UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way Down - protecting them from exploitation and giving them chances in life. — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again! — Ewan McGregor

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

I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick. — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did. — Ewan McGregor

Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget thats actually not the point at the end of the day. — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better. — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

Everyone has to understand what we're saying to one another and there's no point in me thinking the line means this and the person I'm speaking to thinks it means something else. So there's a certain amount of analyzing of text that's of course necessary. — Ewan McGregor

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

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. — Ewan McGregor

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London. — Ewan McGregor

I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor

I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in. — Ewan McGregor

I've never worked with an acting coach, no. — Ewan McGregor

Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with. I mean, I'd like to be with her in. — Ewan McGregor

There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It's not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more. — Ewan McGregor

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

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. — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again. — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really. — Ewan McGregor

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old. — Ewan McGregor

I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it. — Ewan McGregor

I don't want to make decisions about what I'm going to do before I'm doing it because I base my acting off my partner and off the other people in the scene. — Ewan McGregor

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts. — Ewan McGregor

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

I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do. — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

I wanted to make sure that I was making films about the world. So I thought well, I should go and see it. I'm spending a lot of time in - we call them caravans in Britain. — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

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

When I moved to London, you could park your motorcycle in the pavement, on the sidewalk. We would stay here and just leave it and go about your business. But now something was sort of encroaching in London. There's cameras everywhere. You can't do anything. You're not allowed to be in a group. — Ewan McGregor

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

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

There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear. — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters. — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

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

I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to become an Ambassador. It's a new and different venture for me and one that I know will widen my wider perspective on life. I'm in a position to use the recognition from my work to do something really positive for children — Ewan McGregor

I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it. — Ewan McGregor

I've never been one who agonizes over my work. — Ewan McGregor

I was getting in trouble at school. I wasn't happy. The school was very much a school that created people for commerce and it wasn't an arty school. — Ewan McGregor

I think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know. — Ewan McGregor

For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance. — Ewan McGregor

I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for. — Ewan McGregor

I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'. — Ewan McGregor

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

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. — Ewan McGregor

I'm not a superhero fan. I don't see those films. I'm not interested. — Ewan McGregor

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? — Ewan McGregor

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

I can't know what I'm going to do before I'm in front of the lens. And I think that sort of makes it exciting. — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it. — Ewan McGregor

I don't really like to know what I'm going to do before I do it. — Ewan McGregor

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid. — Ewan McGregor

My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life. — Ewan McGregor

I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies. — Ewan McGregor

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people. — Ewan McGregor

I'm always interested in playing different people, in different situationsIt doesn't matter to me whether someone is in love with a man or a woman. I find the idea of love and romance interesting. I'm a sucker for it. I like playing someone who's falling in love because I like the sensation of it. People do extraordinary things when they're falling in love. — Ewan McGregor

I wanted to go and explore the world, I guess. And I suddenly thought well, I'll just do it. — Ewan McGregor

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? — Ewan McGregor

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned. — Ewan McGregor

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

I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages. — Ewan McGregor

It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with. — Ewan McGregor

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors. — Ewan McGregor

A million pounds sounds like a lot of money now that I'm saying it. But in terms of moviemaking, it's not a lot of money. And yet you can see what can be done with that, with the talent of a great cinematographer and great director and actors. — Ewan McGregor

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. — Ewan McGregor

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

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

I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know. — Ewan McGregor

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures. — Ewan McGregor

When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that. — Ewan McGregor

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican. — Ewan McGregor

I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor. — Ewan McGregor

I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done. — Ewan McGregor

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. — Ewan McGregor

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set. — Ewan McGregor

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way. — Ewan McGregor

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

Life Lessons by Ewan McGregor

1. Ewan McGregor has demonstrated that hard work and dedication can lead to success, as he has achieved success in both film and television.
2. He has also shown that it is possible to remain humble and down-to-earth despite achieving fame and fortune.
3. Finally, Ewan McGregor has shown that it is possible to take risks and pursue creative projects, even when they may seem unconventional or difficult.