233 Quotes by Ewan McGregor

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 never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.

I don't like the idea of not being able to knock about the town, you know.

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 certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.

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.

This is purely an attempt to do some good theatre, commission new writing, adapt the classics and to do our own thing.