Ewan McGregor quotes
- From the movie: Shallow Grave
“When you get up in the morning, how do you decide what shade of black to wear?”
- From the movie: Trainspotting
- From the movie: Rogue Trader
“The locals are great. Best thing about this place is it's not still full of pompous ex-colonials who think they were born to rule the world. That's what I love about Asia, anyone can make it, it doesn't matter which stupid school you went to.”
- From the movie: Big Fish
“What I recall of Sunday school was that the more difficult something became, the more rewarding it was in the end.”
- From the movie: Rogue Trader
- From the movie: Trainspotting
“- Swanney: Would Sir care for a starter of some garlic bread perhaps?
- Renton: No, thank you. I will proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please.” - From the movie: Shallow Grave
“Family? Family? Friends? Drugged-up wandering suicidal search of the self fuck-ups don't have families.”
- From the movie: A Life Less Ordinary
“- Celine Naville: Fate had a pretty strange way of making its point.
- Robert Lewis: But that's part of the beauty of it. It's inexplicable, unpredictable... and absolutely beyond control or understanding.” - From the movie: Big Fish
- From the movie: Eye of the Beholder
“- Eye: If I blink, I might lose her.
- Lucy Wilson: So?
- Eye: So the last time I blinked, I lost you.” - From the movie: A Life Less Ordinary
“- Celine Naville: What's wrong?
- Robert Lewis: What's wrong, you crazy bitch, is I thought you were going to shoot me! That's what's wrong!” - From the movie: Nightwatch
“- Martin Bells: Let's grow old together.
- James: Let's get older.
- Martin Bells: Now, there's a challenge.” - From the movie: Trainspotting
- From the movie: Big Fish
“- Ed Bloom - Young: Your last name is different. You married.
- Jenny - Young: I was 18, he was 28. Turns out it was a big difference.” - From the animation: Robots
- From the movie: Shallow Grave
- From the movie: The Serpent's Kiss
“- Thomas Smithers: Chrome, shall we make the desert bloom?
- Meneer Chrome: First we must make the desert.” - From the movie: Big Fish
- From the movie: Rogue Trader
“A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a specified amount of a commodity at a specified price at a future date.”
- From the movie: Moulin Rouge!
“- Christian: When you thought I was the Duke, you said that you loved me, and I wondered if...
- Satine: It was just an act?
- Christian: Yes.
- Satine: Of course.
- Christian: Oh. It just felt real.” - From the movie: Rogue Trader
- From the movie: Trainspotting
“Swanney taught us to adore and respect the national health service. For it was the source of much of our gear. We stole drugs. We stole prescriptions or bought them, sold them, swapped them, forged them, photocopied them. Or traded drugs with cancer victims, alcoholics, old-age pensioners, AIDS patients, epileptics, and bored housewives.”
- From the movie: Rogue Trader
“It's like if I agree to sell you this cup of cappuccino, which I don't yet own, at 45 cents a month from now, if I can buy the cappuccino at say, 43 cents, I make a profit. If the price goes the other way, I have to pay more and I lose. It's timing, it's buying and selling at the right moment. Sometimes expresso might be the best deal, or salt...” (continue)(continue reading)
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