Ewan McGregor > Quotes

“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 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`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn`t think. I just put my hat on Clara`s head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn`t figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby`s wearing a hat with the word Pervert written on it and these people were like, `There`s Satan! There`s Satan out with his kid!` And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there.”
― 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 really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.”
― 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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.”
― Ewan McGregor

“Seasons may change winter to spring, but I love you until the end of time
Come what may, come what may, I will love you until my dying day
Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place
Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace
Suddenly my life doesn’t seem such a waste, it all revolves around you.
And there’s no mountain too high no river too wide
Sing out this song and I’ll be there by your side
Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide
But I love you until the end of time”
― 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

“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

“...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

“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

“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

“Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.”
― Ewan McGregor

“Não nos conheciam de lado nenhum, mas ofereciam-nos, a nós e aos nossos quatro amigos, um lauto jantar e um lugar onde dormir. Se alguém me aparecesse assim de imprevisto em casa, não o acolheria certamente da mesma maneira.”
― Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

“Trata-se de uma aventura, não de um pacote de férias. E as aventuras não são aventuras se não houver um certo grau de perigo e incerteza.”
― Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

“Parecia que nada se fazia na Mongólia sem um brinde de vodka. De todas as tradições russas que os sovietes tinham exportado para os seus satélites, era vergonhoso que a que prevalecia fosse a vodka a qual, antigamente, nem sequer fazia parte da sua cultura.”
― Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

“We'll get there!”
― Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round

“Ele tinha-nos sugerido que fôssemos todos a uma sauna e eu pensei que devia ser o que os ucranianos costumavam fazer depois do trabalho, mas vieram-me à cabeça outros pensamentos. Se se tratasse apenas de uma sauna, não teria quaisquer problemas. Mas podia significar tanta coisa mais e eu não queria dar por mim numa situação dessas. Nem pensar.”
― Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

“But, above all, there’s something about riding a bike—the concentration and the single-mindedness of it, and the desire to get it right, taking a corner fast without losing control, doing it beautifully, getting into a groove and winning the battle between your head telling you to do one thing, the bike wanting to do another and your body in between—that I miss like hell if I don’t get to ride it every day. I walk into the house and I’m chilled.”
― Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

“Se os mortos não estavam contrariados por ter os ossos empilhados na parede do fundo, suponho que também não se ralariam em ser usados como artigos de decoração. Era como o sonho erótico de um assassino em série, pensamento que me tirou logo o apetite para o almoço.”
― Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

“Apontaram para o ecrã e, depois, para nós. Acenámos com a cabeça. Não encararam aquilo de modo tão estranho como eu pensei. Pareceu-lhes até bastante natural. Dávamos a volta ao mundo, estávamos em casa deles e aparecíamos na televisão. Era tão simples quanto isso.”
― Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

“Após a atenção mediática e as escoltas da Polícia, aquele isolamento e serenidade eram uma bênção. Pouco importava que não tomássemos banho há já uns dias. Para dizer a verdade, havia uma parte de rapazinho em mim que estava toda excitada com isso. Nunca me senti tão bem por estar todo sujo.”
― Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World