Top 100 Ewan's Quotes
#1. This someone you were talking with wouldn't be that Frost fellow, would it?" Ewan's crisp accent floated into the kitchen like a brisk breeze. "The last thing you need is to be talking to that moronic jackass.
Monica Burns
#2. 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
#3. 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.
Ewan McGregor
#4. Ewan had shown her ways for a man to take a woman that she wouldn't have thought possible. But never once had he hurt her.
Nay, her bear was ever tender.
Kinley MacGregor
#5. I do like British guys. If I had to pick one it would be Ewan McGregor. I met him once and he was gorgeous, even if he is a little short. He has the most amazing charisma.
Eva Longoria
#6. Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.
Ewan McGregor
#7. 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.
Ewan McGregor
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.
Ewan McGregor
#13. 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
#14. I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long.
Ewan McGregor
#15. When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.
Ewan McGregor
#16. Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.
Ewan McGregor
#17. I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
Ewan McGregor
#18. Look, if I don't let Ewan in, he's going to call the police."
"Answer it," he rasped with a harsh resolve. "But when he's gone, you're coming with me, Emma. Count on it."
"Go to hell," she snapped in a breathy whisper as the doorbell rang again.
Monica Burns
#19. It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.
Ewan McGregor
#20. No, no I'm not, no, but I just think ... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.
Ewan McGregor
#21. I've been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight.
Ewan McGregor
#22. I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.
Ewan McGregor
#23. I'm in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about.
Ewan McGregor
#24. 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.
Ewan McGregor
#25. I've never been one who agonizes over my work.
Ewan McGregor
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.
Ewan McGregor
#29. I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There's nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.
Ewan McGregor
#30. I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
Ewan McGregor
#31. 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
#32. My feeling about seeing the world is that it's 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
#33. Have you always been so large? (Nora)
Aye. I came from my mother's womb at full height. The shock of it almost killed her. (Ewan)
Kinley MacGregor
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. I gave my word," Crispen said stubbornly.
"You said a McCabe never breaks his word."
Ewan shook his head wearily. "I'm beginning
to regret telling you of things a McCabe
doesn't do. Come, let's sit in the hall so you
can tell me of these adventures of yours.
Maya Banks
#37. 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
#38. ...for, in [William] Morris's words, 'a work of utility might also be a work of art, if we cared to make it so.
Ewan Clayton
#39. 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
#40. 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
#42. From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
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#43. I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.
Ewan McGregor
#44. I found my partner, my life partner, and I really am in love with my wife, and we have a lovely time, and we share a long history together and children together, and that's it.
Ewan McGregor
#45. I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.
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#47. When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.
Ewan McGregor
#48. 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
#49. Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.
Ewan McGregor
#50. You touch her again, and so help me I'll rip your arm off and beat you with it. (Ewan)
Kinley MacGregor
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?
Ewan McGregor
#54. 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
#55. I won't buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.
Ewan McGregor
#56. I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.
Ewan McGregor
#57. I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.
Ewan McGregor
#58. 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
#59. I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.
Ewan McGregor
#60. 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
#61. So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.
Ewan McGregor
#62. For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!
Ewan McGregor
#63. Alaric grunted. Someone should tell her
that. I'm telling you, Ewan, she said nothing.
She stared at me like I was some kind of
toad. Worse, she had Crispen acting like I
was the enemy. The two whispered like
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conspirators and glared at me when I dared
intervene.
Maya Banks
#64. Was that a smile? (Nora)
Was what a smile? (Ewan)
That strange curvature of your lips. You know, the one where the corners are actually going up instead of down. (Nora)
Kinley MacGregor
#65. 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
#66. I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
Ewan McGregor
#67. The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
Ewan McGregor
#68. Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.
Ewan McGregor
#69. Are you sure the two of you aren't married? (Bavel)
Why do you ask? (Ewan)
You can barely stand to speak to each other, and yet when the lady walks off you look as if you can already taste her. Smacks of marriage to me. (Bavel)
Kinley MacGregor
#71. I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.
Ewan McGregor
#72. We're... er... meant to be naked," he continued, almost apologetic.
Cait blurted, "I know!" and then slapped her hands over the front of her mouth in horror at what she said, "I mean... that is... I'd figured that's how it was.
Stephanie Sterling
#73. As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.
Ewan McGregor
#75. Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.
Ewan McGregor
#76. Oliver's expression darkened. "I know what you are," he said, pointing at Ewan accusingly. "Since when are you a homophobe," said Ewan. "What?" Oliver asked. "What?" Ewan replied. Oliver shook his head as if bewildered.
Erin Claiborne
#77. ...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.
Ewan McGregor
#78. Ewan McGregor and I had very similar first-time light sabre experiences. We both burned ourselves! These things are hot - they're full of batteries!
Hayden Christensen
#79. My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
Natalie Dormer
#80. 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
#81. Do you intend to come over here and mount your horse, or are you wanting to stare at my backside for the rest of the day? (Ewan)
Kinley MacGregor
#82. 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
#83. Whatever did they feed you to make you grow so large? (Nora)
A great deal of breast milk. (Ewan)
You take great delight in shocking people, don't you? (Nora)
Kinley MacGregor
#84. There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.
Ewan McGregor
#85. Your name isn't Sniffles?" Ewan pretended to be surprised.
C.J. Milbrandt
#86. Nightmares and secrets. Ewan wished he knew what had happened to these girls before he found them.
C.J. Milbrandt
#87. I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.
Ewan McGregor
#88. I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.
Ewan McGregor
#89. The smaller girl hid her eyes with her hands, and Ewan smiled. Did she think that would make her invisible?
C.J. Milbrandt
#90. Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on their travels, and we kept in touch.
Kelly Jones
#91. I don't do things lightly; I don't take a job then just phone it in - I've never done that.
Ewan McGregor
#92. 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.
Ewan McGregor
#94. 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 that's actually not the point at the end of the day.
Ewan McGregor
#95. 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
#96. I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me.
Ewan McGregor
#98. I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.
Ewan McGregor
#99. They got to him," Ewan said, needlessly. "Must have been a midnight snack," Tim said, smiling grimly. Ewan frowned. "Don't be so morbid.
Guido Baechler
#100. Gathering wool, are we? (Ewan)
Nay, merely practicing irritating you, and by the looks of your face, I'd say I'm doing a rather remarkable job of it. My mother always says that any effort worth pursuing is worth pursuing well. (Nora)
Kinley MacGregor
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