Welcome to my Ewan McGregor page. It's got Ewan quotes and things people said about Ewan that I have collected and at the bottom of the page are some select Ewan pictures. If I knew how to make thumbnails or the pictures, I would put up my entire collection of Ewan pictures, which is probably all the pictures available of Ewan on the Web. But, alas, I am ignorant when it comes to making thumbnails, so you'll have to make due with what I have here until I become knowledgeable.

I found this while wandering TheForce.net...what a lovely place:

3/29/98 - EWAN ANECDOTE
Sy Snootles sent us the following "friend of a friend" story which is
supposedly making its rounds at ILM...

The first day of filming of Star Wars episode one in the Tunisian
desert. They're filming a lightsabre duel between Ewan and Liam Neeson.

Suddenly Liam drops his lightsabre and storms off. The crew burst out
laughing. George Lucas is sitting there stoney faced. Ewan is baffled
and can't work out what he has done wrong. Eventually George Lucas gets
up and walks up to him, still completely stoney faced.

"Ewan", he says, "Don't make the noises."



"Ewan walked in the door, and it was like there was a sign above his head saying, 'Rock god! Rock god!'" Ross says. "And as soon as he opened his mouth, he just blew me away." ~Andrew Ross, singing coach

"I've got a black woolen hat and it's got PERVERT written across the front of it. It's the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn't think. I just put my hat on Clara's head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn't figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby's wearing a hat with the word pervert written on it and these people were like,
'There's Satan! There's Satan out with his kid!' And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there."
Ewan, on an experience during filming A Life Less Ordinary

Ewan on being naked in film:
"Being naked was far more worrisome for everyone else on the set than it was for me," he reports. "I actually enjoyed it, the truth be told. There was something incredibly powerful about it. Usually you'd get arrested for that sort of thing, but I got paid."

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

"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." - on filming "The Pillow Book"

"This is what they mean by 'the long line of McGregors.'"
~Ewan, commenting on the 'size' of a certain male appendage.

"It is sexy, because it represents danger, and a life that most of us wouldn't lead. People either decided to be
frightened of things we don't know about, or be excited by them. So on that level it makes sense that it's an attractive look. And I'm wet. It's a wet t-shirt!! So that's good. We all like a wet t-shirt, don't we?" ~Ewan on the popularity of the 'Trainspotting' shirt with Ewan, hands hooked under armpits, wet and shivering.

Ewan's take on the film industry:
"I have always been and am driven, although I don't know where to. I don't have any goal, or goals as such. [Being an actor] was always the way it was going to be... I've never let myself entertain the notion of what would happen if it didn't all work out."

"I'm still driven. I can't stop it. They keep giving me scripts. Everyone tells me to slow down. Fuck off! Why?"

"When I met with agents in L.A., they would tell me you had to do two movies for yourself and then two for the
business. And I thought, 'Fuck off. No you don't. You do every film because you want to do good work. Because you're interested in making good movies and working with good people. To do a crapppy event movie for a lot of money, like Independence Day -- I would never taint my soul with that crap."

"I've always wanted to go to Hollywood, drive big cars and be in big movies. But I hope I won't just do any film to become a star. I just want to carry on working, acting. I don't want to direct or write. I think making films is brilliant. I get excited just going on a film set. Going on location is amazing, hanging about will all these film people doing their thing. If I bump into a star I get all star-struck."

Ewan on 'Star Wars':
"The Star Wars movies are way beyond studio pictures. I can't say no."

"It was a bit overwhelming when George [Lucas] said for the first time, 'Okay, now you come into the spaceship and start it up.' We were all suddenly on the floor laughing. 'You start it up?! How do you do that? Is there a key?'" ~on filming a scene in 'The Phantom Menace'

"People have actually said to me, 'May the Force be with you'. I think that's quite batty."

"It was my dream to be up there. When the curtains open and the lights go down and it says 'Ewan McGregor' it's like, 'Yesssss'!" ~Ewan (On appearing in The Phantom Menace)

"I've been waiting twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing's cooler than being a Jedi Knight."

"Actually, I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pasteries on my head. Now that would be interesting." ~on his casting in the 'Star Wars Prequel'

"I came in and my wife was with all her mates, and I said, 'I got to work with R2-D2 today!' And they all just laughed." ~On his first day of shooting Episode I

"I was 6 years old when Star Wars came out," he explains. "I remember standing outside school waiting to be picked up, so excited. And my daughter's going to be 6 when the new Star Wars movies are out. That's fucking lovely in a way, you know?"

There's another family connection to the series as well: McGregor says his uncle, actor Denis Lawson (Local Hero), was "the only X-wing pilot to survive all three" of the original Star Wars movies. Lawson, not surprisingly, was also the inspiration for McGregor's own early acting ambitions.
"I was brought up in a small conservative town [Crieff] in Scotland," he says. "And my uncle used to come up from London in the '70s wearing sheepskin waistcoats and beads, with no shoes and long hair, giving people flowers and stuff. I just went, wow. Right then I decided to become an actor--even though I had no idea what that meant."

"He's got that thing Tom Hanks has. He's like the guy next door. He's got that ordinariness--that's his nature. There's something quite naughty about Ewan as well. Very naughty." -Danny Boyle, director

"Ewan is always overflowing with energy. He's very spontaneous, very in the moment. That's a rare quality. It's an American actor's quality." -Liam Neeson

"Ewan was the clumsiest. Every take, something would fall off his costume or he'd drop his lightsaber." -Stunt
coordinator Nick Gillard

"Could have been edited by a crack-addicted ferret with
ADD who just downed a half dozen Pixie Stix."
- review of Moulin Rouge

"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 this summer from Entertainment Weekly, May 2001

"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 on Nicole Kidman's character in Moulin Rouge from Details Magazine, May 2001

"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 from Details Magazine, May 2001

"Lying down from 50 feet, I was perfect. So I could really kill someone. Which is always good to know." ~Ewan on learning how to use a gun in Black Hawk Down from Details Magazine, May 2001

"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 in Teen Magazine, September 1997

"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." ~Ewan on being in 11 movies in 2 years alone from Tribute Magazine June 1999

"An airport customs inspector once recognised me from Trainspotting and strip searched me looking for drugs."

"My dad saw my full package in Pillow Book and said, 'I'm glad to see you inherited one of my major attributes.'"

"I smoke a lot. I drink far too much-I don't excercise. I torture small animals." ~Ewan on his sex appeal.

"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

"People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, 'What? You're married?' Strange reaction to have. Proves what people's ideas about marriage are. 'We're having a baby.' 'WHAT?' As if it's the end of the world. Of course, it's the start of a brillant world." ~Ewan in Buzz Magazine March 1997

"I'm naked a lot of the time, and they don't try to frame planted pots in front of my dick like they do in most other films. It's all part of the story, but they don't zoom in on it or anything and go, 'Cock shot!' I've been naked in almost everything I've been in, really. I have it written into my contract." ~Ewan in Buzz Magazine March 1997

"I've done nudity in plenty of movies. It's never bothered me. It's more embarrassing for everyone else on the set. They are all trying not to look. It isn't easy for my wife, Eve, to watch them either. I wouldn't like watching her kiss someone else on-screen."

"I took it like a man. He was really tender, very caring. He hugged me afterward. But he never writes. He never calls. Goddamn 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 fucking 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 forget where I got this from:
Ewan McGregor has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Ulster. The Trainspotting and Star Wars star was made a Doctor of Letters at a graduation ceremony in Belfast's Waterfront Hall. The actor said he was delighted at the honorary degree.
"It is a great honour. I can't quite believe it, being Dr McGregor," he said. "It's fantastic. All my friends will have to call me doctor from now on."

This is one of my favorite Ewan pictures

My most favorite Ewan picture