Quotes by Ewan McGregor

Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget that's actually not the point at the end of the day.

— Ewan McGregor

Happiness

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

Wisdom

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

— Ewan McGregor

Wisdom

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

— Ewan McGregor

Success

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

— Ewan McGregor

Wisdom

I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

— Ewan McGregor

Wisdom

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

— Ewan McGregor

Wisdom

I'm in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about.

— Ewan McGregor

Hope

My feeling about seeing the world is that it's going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

— Ewan McGregor

Life

I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

— Ewan McGregor

Love

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.

— Ewan McGregor

Life

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

— Ewan McGregor

Wisdom

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

— Ewan McGregor

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

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

Wisdom

If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.

— Ewan McGregor

Wisdom

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

— Ewan McGregor

Wisdom

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

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

— Ewan McGregor

Wisdom

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

— Ewan McGregor

Wisdom

Conservative's the last thing I am.

— Ewan McGregor

Wisdom

I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

— Ewan McGregor

Wisdom

It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.

— Ewan McGregor

Life