I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to become an Ambassador. It’s a new and different venture for me and one that I know will widen my wider perspective on life. I’m in a position to use the recognition from my work to do something really positive for children.

— Ewan McGregor

Ewan McGregor Quotes

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

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

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

I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I’m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.

— Ewan McGregor

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.

— Ewan McGregor

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

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.

— Ewan McGregor

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.

— Ewan McGregor

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

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.

— Ewan McGregor

Once you’ve agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

— Ewan McGregor

I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I’d do for the rest of my life.

— Ewan McGregor

I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to become an Ambassador. It’s a new and different venture for me and one that I know will widen my wider perspective on life. I’m in a position to use the recognition from my work to do something really positive for children.

— Ewan McGregor

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.

— Ewan McGregor

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.

— Ewan McGregor

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

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

— Ewan McGregor

I’m not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it’s quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we’re not involved as actors.

— Ewan McGregor

There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It’s not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more.

— Ewan McGregor

I hate the word celebrity. I’m not a celebrity, I’m an actor.

— Ewan McGregor
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