A biography for Ewan McGregorhasn’t been written yet.
“Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.”
“Sometimes I feel like doing smaller budget stuff. When I did 'Young Adam', for instance, I'd come out of 'Black Hawk Down' and 'The Island', and I really wanted to be on a small film set. I wanted to be on something intimate and small again, and then 'Young Adam' cropped up in a pile of scripts I was sent.”
“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.”
“I've done nudity in lots of things before. It's something that's never particularly bothered me.”
“So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.”
“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.”
“I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.”
“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.”
“The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.”
“I especially love my Moto Guzzi.”
“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.”
“I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.”
“I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.”
“I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.”
“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.”
“The film I like the best is always the one I'm working on now or next.”
“I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.”
“I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long.”
“I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.”
“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.”