Ewan McGregor

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.”

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

“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.”

“At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.”

“Conservative's the last thing I am.”

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

“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.”

“Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.”

“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.”

“I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't do things lightly; I don't take a job then just phone it in - I've never done that.”

“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.”

“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].”

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