Quotes from Ewan McGregor

I especially love my Moto Guzzi.

I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.

I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.

It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.

I think it's quite tricky for actors to release albums. It's difficult, because I'm an actor, you know, I'm not a musician. I love singing, but I don't have a big repertoire of songs that I've written; I mean, I've got a few, but nothing that I could fill an album with, and I don't want to do it just for the sake of it.

I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.

I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

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.

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.

I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get into the ins and outs of it.

I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.

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.

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 think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

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.

I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.