Ewan Gordon McGregor OBE (born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor, known internationally for his various film roles, including independent dramas, science-fiction epics, and musicals.
If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.
I've never worked with an acting coach, no.
I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.
The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.
I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.
Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.
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
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.
I've sort of done a play every four or five years I guess if I look back in my career. And I think that's good.
There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.
No, no I'm not, no, but I just think. . . when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.
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.
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.
Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.
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.
I'm not a superhero fan. I don't see those films. I'm not interested.
I grew up in a very small town in Scotland, a little place called Crieff which is beautiful and it's at the foothills to the highlands. It's a very beautiful part of the world. It's a small, I suppose quite conservative place.
In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.
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.
Everyone has to understand what we're saying to one another and there's no point in me thinking the line means this and the person I'm speaking to thinks it means something else. So there's a certain amount of analyzing of text that's of course necessary.