Ewan McGregor movie quotes

“Choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes, cashmere and silk, to make yourself feel what passes for happy. Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window and stick it in the pocket of your jacket fresh from a South-Asian Firetrap. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a thousand others ways to spew your bile...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ewan McGregor - Renton

“- Satine: I can't fall in love with anyone.
- Christian: Can't... fall in love? But a life without love... that's terrible!
- Satine: No. Being on the street, that's terrible.”
Nicole Kidman - Satine
Ewan McGregor - Christian

“It was that night I discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in the social niceties.”
Ewan McGregor - Ed Bloom - Young

“There are some fish that cannot be caught. It's not that they are faster or stronger than other fish, they're just touched by something extra.”
Ewan McGregor - Ed Bloom - Young

“The Moulin Rouge. A night club, a dance hall and a bordello. Ruled over by Harold Zidler. A kingdom of night time pleasures. Where the rich and powerful came to play with the young and beautiful creatures of the underworld. The most beautiful of these was the one I loved. Satine. A courtesan. She sold her love to men. They called her the ...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ewan McGregor - Christian

“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return!”
Ewan McGregor - Christian

“When you're on junk you have only one worry: scoring. When you're off it you are suddenly obliged to worry about all sorts of other shite. Got no money: can't get pissed. Got money: drinking too much. Can't get a bird: no chance of a ride. Got a bird: too much hassle. You have to worry about bills, about food, about some football team that never...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ewan McGregor - Mark Renton

- Sick Boy: "The Name of The Rose" is merely a blip on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory.
- Renton: What about "The Untouchables"?
- Sick Boy: I don't rate that at all.
- Renton: Despite the Academy Award?
- Sick Boy: That means fuck all. Its a sympathy vote.
- Renton: Right. So we all get old and then we can't hack it anymore. Is... (continue)(continue reading)
Jonny Lee Miller - Sick Boy
Ewan McGregor - Mark Renton

“Perhaps the reason for my growth was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life.”
Ewan McGregor - Ed Bloom - Young

“Christopher Robin-Hello Pooh.
Winnie The Pooh-Hello Christopher Robin.
Christopher Robin-I'm sorry Pooh. I'm so terribly sorry. I should never had shouted at you.
Winnie The Pooh-Well I am a bear of very little brain.
Christopher Robin-No Pooh. You are I think a bear of very big heart.”
Ewan McGregor - Christopher Robin
Jim Cummings - Winnie the Pooh

“Christopher Robin-I've cracked.
Winnie The Pooh-Oh, I don't see any cracks. A few wrinkles, maybe.”
Jim Cummings - Winnie the Pooh
Ewan McGregor - Christopher Robin

“Winnie The Pooh-What day is it?
Christopher Robin-It's today.
Winnie The Pooh-My favorite day.”
Jim Cummings - Winnie the Pooh
Ewan McGregor - Christopher Robin

“Our beliefs don't make us better people. Our actions make us better people.”
Ewan McGregor - Dan Torrance

- Abra Stone: You're magic. Like me.
- Danny Torrance: You need to listen to me. The world's a hungry place. A dark place. I've only met two or three people like us. They died. When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don't know about magic. I, I always called it "the shining".
Kyliegh Curran - Abra Stone
Ewan McGregor - Dan Torrance

“- Danny Torrance: Man takes a drink. A drink takes the drink. And then the drink takes a man. Isn't it so, Dad?
- The Bartender: Medicine. Medicine is what it is. Bona fide cure-all. The mind is a blackboard, and this is the eraser.”
Ewan McGregor - Dan Torrance
Henry Thomas - The Bartender

“We're all dying. The world's just one big hospice with fresh air.”
Ewan McGregor - Dan Torrance

“- Simon: You know, since we're having this conversation, I can tell you that fully consentual, emotionally driven, not-for-profit sexual intercourse has been attained.
- Renton: Simon, you're a romantic.”
Jonny Lee Miller - Simon
Ewan McGregor - Renton

“I did steal the money, but they shouldn't have been surprised. I mean, we stole from all sorts of people. Shops, businesses, neighbours, family. Friends was just one more class of victim.”
Ewan McGregor - Renton

“- Renton: What are you gonna do?
- Veronika: I don't know. I should go home. But... To go home with nothing? No qualification, no career, not even bringing money.
- Renton: What's at home?
- Veronika: You know. Emotional attachment. That's all.”
Ewan McGregor - Renton
Anjela Nedyalkova - Veronika

- Veronika: What's 'Choose life'?
- Renton: What?
- Veronika: 'Choose life'. Simon says it sometimes. He says "Choose life, Veronika!"
- Renton: 'Choose life'. 'Choose life' was a well meaning slogan from a 1980's anti-drug campaign and we used to add things to it, so I might say for example, choose... designer lingerie, in the vain hope of... (continue)(continue reading)
Anjela Nedyalkova - Veronika
Ewan McGregor - Renton

“The downside of coming off junk was I knew I would need to mix with my friends again in a state of full consciousness. It was awful. They reminded me so much of myself, I could hardly bear to look at them.”
Ewan McGregor - Mark Renton

“- Juliet Miller: You're frightened.
- Alex Law: I'm not frightened. I'm a little terrified, maybe.”
Kerry Fox - Juliet Miller
Ewan McGregor - Alex Law

“- Charlie Mortdecai: What is in it for me, as they say?
- Inspector Martland: Do it for Queen and country.
- Charlie Mortdecai: No! ... All right, Queen and country, travel and living expenses, reasonable overhead.
- Inspector Martland: Done!”

Johnny Depp - Mortdecai
Ewan McGregor - Martland

“- Tony Hawes: What are you going to do with all that money?
- Nick Leeson: I'm not going to spend it on futures and options.”
Tim McInnerny - Tony Hawes
Ewan McGregor - Nick Leeson

“- Meneer Chrome: This is an Anglo-Dutch garden, madam, with French influence. We have progressed from flowers. A garden is a celebration of art's triumph over nature.
- James Fitzmaurice: We shall be the fucking flowers. We shall provide the color and scent as we walk among the gravel paths.”

Ewan McGregor - Meneer Chrome
Richard R. Grant - James Fitzmaurice