A biography for Ewan McGregorhasn’t been written yet.
“Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.”
“No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.”
“Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.”
“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.”
“We'll get there!”
“I've never been one who agonizes over my work.”
“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.”
“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 find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.”
“I've never found acting that difficult.”
“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.”
“I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.”
“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.”
“I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.”
“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.”