233 Quotes by Ewan McGregor

A million pounds sounds like a lot of money now that I'm saying it. But in terms of moviemaking, it's not a lot of money. And yet you can see what can be done with that, with the talent of a great cinematographer and great director and actors.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

I have worked with a lot of great directors but my favorites are all entirely different from one another. They don't go about it the same way.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

I don't like being told that's where you, you know, if you walk on set and somebody was "okay, you're here and you're going to walk over there on this line." And my reaction is always how do you know? How do you know that's what I'm going to do? How do any of us know?

There's nothing worse than shooting a scene you haven't rehearsed.

I think theatre reminds us what we're doing as actors, because every night and every matinee day, you have an audience telling you what's working and what's not. And that's very good for us as actors to hone our skills.

For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.