Ewan McGregor Quotes

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.

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.

I especially love my Moto Guzzi.

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

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.

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.

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

Above all things I believe in love.

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

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

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.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

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.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

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.

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.

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

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.

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.

I've been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight.

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.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

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.