It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted. Ewan McGregor More Quotes by Ewan McGregor More Quotes From Ewan McGregor There's very few directors that know what that rehearsal's for. And often it's just about calming down the director. If he could see it or she sees it, she goes oh, it's going to be okay. Ewan McGregor calmingrehearsaldirectors 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. Ewan McGregor wandering-aroundrussiapeople If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it. Ewan McGregor mindwantneeds 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. Ewan McGregor scotlandbeautifulworld If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it. Ewan McGregor playing-musicrunningpeople My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life. Ewan McGregor adultswifemean I wanted to go and explore the world, I guess. And I suddenly thought well, I'll just do it. Ewan McGregor wellswantedworld I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television. Ewan McGregor mindsillythinking When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican. Ewan McGregor accentsmexicansound I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people. Ewan McGregor spendingfilmpeople I wanted to make sure that I was making films about the world. So I thought well, I should go and see it. I'm spending a lot of time in - we call them caravans in Britain. Ewan McGregor filmshouldworld Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do. Ewan McGregor actors I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader. Ewan McGregor notesactorsstories If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it. Ewan McGregor engagedwantwriting I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old. Ewan McGregor actorsnineyears I've never worked with an acting coach, no. Ewan McGregor coachesacting I think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know. Ewan McGregor doing-youeyethinking This middle-budget drama movies are just gone. Ewan McGregor middlegonedrama For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance. Ewan McGregor actorsimportantlittles There’s a lot of talk. Ewan McGregor entertainment
