A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

— Ewan McGregor

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

— Ewan McGregor

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

He's quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen].

— Ewan McGregor

I fight cynicism. It's too easy. It's really boring. It's much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren't as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.

— Ewan McGregor

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 anymore, and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

— Ewan McGregor

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.

— Ewan McGregor

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

— Ewan McGregor

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

— Ewan McGregor

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 McGregor