Ewan quotes!!!
Finally, the important stuff....
"My heart aches completely every hour of every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away"
~ part of Ewan's poem in Moulin Rouge
"I can move that wee arrow about a bit"
~Ewan's degree of computer literacy~
"An airport customs inspector once recognised me from Trainspotting and strip searched me looking for drugs"
"I went to choose my lightsaber, and they brought out this wooden case with padlocks on it. My breath was taken away - there were eight or nine different designs of handles. I picked one that had a little mauve button on it. And it has a great, really sexy, violent-looking handle... I saw a clip of me drawing it and switching it on, and it was just an incredible sight. I was like, 'Fawwwwk.' People would want to touch it. I wouldn't let them. I got very possessive of it."
-About his light saber in Star Wars
"Love is a many splendored thing.. love, lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love.."
- Moulin Rouge
"That's silly. I don't want to sing on an elephant."
- Ewan on the phone to Baz Lurhmann, director of Moulin Rouge, before realizing that the elephant wasn't real
"I wasn't a geeky one, nor was I very into sport. I mean, I quite liked the drama of sport in that we had to play rugby and cricket and stuff and I became very good at diving the wrong way when a guy was running towards me. I just remember the fear of these guys with huge legs and the look of death in their face, running towards you, and you're supposed to wrap yourself round their running legs. F** that! I became very very good at looking like I'd misread where he was going and diving the wrong way. So my acting really began there."
Ms London April 2002
"And they were really afraid that I might actually have some fun in my life, that was a huge threat to them. No fun in Utah. It says that when you drive in: 'No fun. In Utah. Thank you.'"
- On filming A Life Less Ordinary in Utah
"They went up alive and came down dead! Did you notice that? The difference, I mean; alive dead, dead alive, that sort of thing?!"
- Shallow Grave
"He's quite the gentleman, Obi-Wan. But I don't think he'd have any problems pulling if he wanted to. You know, as a Jedi, he's not allowed to fall in love or get involved with that. So I suppose by now, he's just got really big balls�"
"I'd like to see me naked. That would be novel"
- When asked what celebrity he would most like to see naked
"I just wanted to feel that. I of course imagined 25,000 people in the stadium. We had about 400 in Brixton Academy, but they moved them around, and I kind of got the idea."
Ewan on demanding to sing live in Velvet Goldmine
"Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant -- does it get any better than this?"
- Ewan talking about Moulin Rouge
"I smoke a lot. I drink far too much. I don't exercise. I torture small animals."
Ewan on his sex appeal
Robert: "Are you taking me to a hospital? Because I don't want to die in a hospital."
Celine: "I'm not going to take you to a hospital."
Robert: "WHAT? What do you mean you're not taking me to a hospital? I demand to be taken to a hospital!"
A Life Less Ordinary
"Be mindful of your thoughts, my young Padawan. Don't dwell on the negative."
- Obi Wan Kenobi in AOTC
"I use to say she was a skanky whore, which really pissed her off. But, yes. She plays a courtesan. A high-class whore. A high-class skanky whore."
-Ewan McGregor- On Nicole Kidman's character in Moulin Rouge
Details Magazine, May 2001
"What you've got to remember, always, is that she is just a skanky whore."
- On Nicole Kidman, MR
"I'd say, 'You're meant to be in love with me! You cannot refer to me as a skanky old whore!' And he'd go, 'Oh yeah...Sorry.'"
-Nicole Kidman- On working with Ewan in Moulin Rouge
Details Magazine, May 2001
"I'll get in touch with Nicole now and again. Definitely. Because she's a skanky old whore and I love her for it."
- Ewan when asked if he will stay in touch with Kidman Elle August 2001
"When did anyone last say to you these exact words; 'you are the sunshine of my life'"
Shallow Grave
"I don't care about Oscars. It's such self-aggrandizing nonsense. It's a way to manipulate people into believing that their choices are what's good. It's rubbish. They're looking after themselves. I'll be fu**ing deliriously happy if I ever get one by the way. I'll go up there and cry and everything. But I don't value them, because I don't have one yet."
"I, Nicholas Leeson, have lost 50 million Quid.... IN ONE DAY!!!!"
- Rogue Trader
"Of course, Ewan had to do it when asked: 'It would take a bigger guy than me to turn down Star Wars.' And he wanted a light sabre."
Esquire Magazine September 2001
"I don't consider myself one. Women don't throw undies at me. I wish they would!"
- Ewan on being asked what it's like to be a sex symbol
"I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible."
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return"
- Moulin Rouge
"My dad phoned up saying, 'We're going, me and your Mum, are going to see The Pillow Book tonight in Edinburgh.' And I said, 'Oh, that's great!' He said, 'Yeah, we're going with the farmer and his wife and some friends.' And I suddenly thought, 'I haven't told him. I haven't told him about the sex with a man.' And suddenly he was going with a farmer and his wife! However, the next day I got this fax through saying, 'Son, it was the most beautiful film. You were fantastic in the movie.' And I thought that was just lovely; he'd seen it and got it. None of that wigged him out. And then at the end he said, 'PS, I'm glad to see you've inherited one of my major attributes! Your Dad. Kiss.' Nice, eh?"
- Ewan on his father seeing his.. um... huge talent.. in The Pillow Book
Ms London April 2002
"I chose not to choose life. I chose something else.. and the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"
From the song Choose Life, which is in the film Trainspotting
"...every so often during the day I'd have a Star Wars moment -- I'd go 'Whoopee! Star Wars! Whoopee!' "
- Ewan McGregor
Woman Magazine, Aug 6th 2001.
"I kept telling Nicole as we were filming, 'You'll be driving along, and you'll hear us singing in the car next to you.' That would be just the best thing."
-Ewan- On dreaming of hearing Come What May on the radio.
"There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear."
- Ewan on coming home to Scotland.
"This woman is yours now. I've paid my whore. I owe you nothing, and you mean nothing to me. Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love..."
- Moulin Rouge
"I find it usually works to my advantage to make women wait."
-Ewan to a fan waiting to have her picture taken with him-
"I hated Clueless with a passion. I thought it would have been a really good film if someone had blown her head off at the end with a really huge gun. I mean, this rich bitch suddenly becomes charitable and then she's okay? And then there's the token black friend. It was so corrupt, so L.A., I hated it." - Ewan
Teen Magazine, September 1997
'"It's a really sexy, erotic, dark, anti-society movie. It's wicked." He pauses. "I don't say wicked ever. I'm turning into the Naked Chef�ha! The Naked Actor!"'
Ewan talking about his latest film, Young Adam
"I was 6 years old when Star Wars came out. I remember standing out school waiting to be picked up, so excited. And my daughter is going to be 6 when the new Star Wars movies are out. That�s f---ing lovely in a way, you know?"
- Ewan, Entertainment Weekly
"We had a crazy night up there at some mad mad Scarborough nightclub and I was dancing, thinking I'd got away with not having been spotted, and then the DJ put on that track from Trainspotting where they'd lifted my voice-over, and that started and the DJ went, "Ewan McGregor does his shopping in here!" And I looked up and there was no one standing round me, and I was just being watched dancing! It was hugely embarrassing."
Ewan discusses what he did in his free time while filming Little Voice.
Ms London April 2002
"I think there should be more sex in it!"
- What he thought should be in the script for Moulin Rouge
"I had to lie on top of her and they wanted to see my naked bum and her naked thigh, so we couldn't wear underwear. Because of gravity and things, I got an erection. It was very embarrassing." Gravity? We've never heard it called that before, Ewan! He adds: "It was a case of 'Cut!-we'll go again'. I calmed down and we just got on with the job." Luckily for Ewan, 30, his French wife, Eve, 35 isn't the jealous type.
Ewan on the filming of Scarlet & Black with Alice Krige.
"Listen you daughter, I have your a$$hole!"
- Robert, ALLO
Q: Was it really you doing that cartwheel in A Life Less Ordinary? [If it was you, great form!]
Ewan: Yes, that was me! I do a wicked cartwheel or at least, I like to think so. It actually came out of Danny seeing me do it when we were rehearsing the dancing with Cameron [Diaz]. He liked it and put it in the movie.
"I don't know if I'd ever had more fun in my work. Singing and dancing in a movie, I've been wanting to do this all my life. I drove everyone nuts because I was too excited, but I just felt hell, nobody's done this for years and years. Not like this."
It's F**** great being me!
-Ewan, Esquire Magazine 2001
"It�s dreadful. I guess I�m just an actor who can�t say no. Every time I try to take a few months off, someone hands me a script that I think is too good to pass up. I really should take a holiday, I know, but for me, there�s nothing better than arriving on a film set in the morning and just being someone new. I�m sure I�ll be able to work all this out with a therapist in later years, but for now, making movies is just too much fun to stop and think about it."
On being in 11 movies in 2 years alone
Tribute Magazine June 1999
"Actually, I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting."
- Ewan on his casting in the Star Wars Prequel; Entertainment Weekly
"I needed to go and just find out exactly what it meant to be out and having fun in a kind of hedonistic and debauched environment. That's right, something I wasn't familiar with."
- Ewan, on researching for Moulin Rouge
"SHE'S NOT HERE!!!!"
-Alex in Shallow Grave
"I'm waiting for the right moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real lightsaber."
"My lightsaber flew out of my hands. No one tells you the sabers have about 10 'D' batteries in them. They burn your hands... I tossed the saber in the air and it ended up hitting a technician in the head."
-Ewan Twist Magazine June 2002- on his fumble while filming Star Wars
"I took it like a man. He was really tender, very caring. He hugged me afterward. But he never writes. He never calls. Damn him! Actually, it was a freezing night when we were doing the scene, and it was far less explicit than Ewan and myself thought it was going to be. The camera was on another roof looking across at us. The only thing Todd did was whisper, 'Cut,' rather than shouting it, so that Ewan and I couldn't hear. We were going at it for ages. Then Ewan sort of turned his head and realized, 'Hey, the camera's not *&%$ pointed at us anymore!' So, I sort of turned my head. We stop, and the whole crew is just sitting there. They'd cut ages ago!"
- Christian Bale on filming their love scene in Velvet Goldmine
"I can't fall in love" "Can't fall in love? That's terrible!" "No, living on the streets, that's terrible" "NO!"
- Moulin Rouge
"I started watching golf for the first time the other day. I'm really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it."
"When you wake up in the morning, how do you decide which shade of black to wear?"
- Shallow Grave
Lying down from 50 feet, I was perfect. So I could really kill someone. Which is always good to know."
-Ewan- On learing how to use a gun in Black Hawk Down
Details Magazine, May 2001
