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 know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

— Lee Marvin

I'll keep you here.' He taps his temple. 'Where you can't get lost.

— Gayle Forman

I love the idea of reincarnation, so just in case it doesn't exist, I decided to be different people in the same lifetime.

— Nuno Roque

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

— François de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Ewan McGregor

I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal -- about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I like her, but I can see how she would drive you mad. She's just the sort of person you'd want to get drunk, just to make her giggling and silly.

— Emma Thompson

I think her favorite thing about our. . . Collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she liked the atmosphere of challenge, the way anything that came under discussion could be claimed or rejected by either side. Time and time again the power of an idea or a piece of art was assessed by either its beauty or its technique or its usefulness, and time and time again my wife was surprised by how rarely anything on earth satisfies all three camps.

— Helen Oyeyemi