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Ewan McGregor
Scottish
Actor
Born:
Mar 31
,
1971
Good
Just
Love
People
Think
You
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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.
Ewan McGregor
Parenting
You
Cell Phone
Phone
Giving
Sorry
Few
Whatever
Sense
Every
Earned
Months
Kids
Out
Something
No Sense
New
Disastrous
Because
New One
Cell
Just
Just Because
Ask
Need
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.
Ewan McGregor
Love
Theatre
Sex
Somebody
Fall
Stage
Pantomime
Would
Taken
Always
Child
Want
Them
Conservative's the last thing I am.
Ewan McGregor
Conservative
Am
Thing
Last
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.
Ewan McGregor
Music
Band
Show Off
Think
Way
Would
Able
Horn
Mainly
Perform
Drummer
Sing
French
French Horn
Off
Pipe
Show
Played
I'm in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about.
Ewan McGregor
People
About
Daydream
Most
Just
Where
Many
Things
Position
I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
Ewan McGregor
Great
London
Town
Leave
Plans
Certainly
I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.
Ewan McGregor
Love
Diving
Scuba
Skiing
If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.
Ewan McGregor
Time
You
Say
Kids
Horrible
Obnoxious
Yes
Want
Them
Produce
Really
I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.
Ewan McGregor
Big
Would
Would-Be
Some
Head
Princess
Stick
Want
Leia
Interesting
Really
Now
Play
I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.
Ewan McGregor
Light
Drop
Looking
Out
Real
Just
Just Looking
Moment
Jedi
Pull
I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.
Ewan McGregor
Dance
Weekend
Like
Activity
I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
Ewan McGregor
Music
School
Way
Kind
Through
Performed
Played
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.
Ewan McGregor
You
Remember
Build
Few
More
Only
Shallow
Take
Times
Than
Did
Done
Grave
I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.
Ewan McGregor
Old
Mind
Made
Nine
Definitely
Years
Up
Wanted
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.
Ewan McGregor
Good
Quality
People
Important
Otherwise
Says
About
Something
Good Scripts
Point
Stuff
Know
Making
Very
Just
Interesting
Scripts
Interesting People
Really
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
Life
Time
You
Drive
First
Fall
Back
Spend
Out
Something
More
Never
Come
First Place
Got
Doing
Years
Any
Just
Want
Wanted
Place
Your
Suddenly
Four
By The Time
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.
Ewan McGregor
Director
Trust
Try
Job
Style
Charge
Give
He
Alter
Him
Always
No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.
Ewan McGregor
You
People
Naked
Think
Relationships
Tells
About
Lot
Just
The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
Ewan McGregor
Better
Old
Black
Black And White
White
Other
Run
More
Weekends
Had
Well
Huge
Romantic
Movies
Used
Appetite
Things
Two
It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.
Ewan McGregor
You
Youth
Important
Spirit
Get
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.
Ewan McGregor
Theatre
School
Stage
Crew
Seven
Months
About
Part
Left
Repertory
Quite
Six
Where
Which
Then
Worked
Lived
Nearby
I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long.
Ewan McGregor
Long
Before
Stage
Back
Seven
Know
Leave
Years
Left
Going
Now
I've never been one who agonizes over my work.
Ewan McGregor
Work
Never
Over
Been
Who
I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.
Ewan McGregor
Love
Myself
Recognize
Find
Nailed
Proud
Very
Acting
Hard
Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.
Ewan McGregor
Life
Success
Personal Life
Tricky
Both
Deal
Personal
Success Is
Your
Professionally
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.
Ewan McGregor
Great
You
Key
Think
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Great Film
Able
Make
How
Whereas
Regardless
Script
Gonna
Then
Working
Film
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