Ewan McGregor movie quotes

“I had come to write about truth, beauty, freedom, and that which I believed in above all things: love.”
Ewan McGregor - Christian

“- Celine Naville: How much are you asking for?
- Robert Lewis: Half a million.
- Celine Naville: Half a million dollars is not a lot of money for a woman like me!
- Robert Lewis: I didn't mean it as a reflection of you as an individual!”
Cameron Diaz - Celine Naville
Ewan McGregor - Robert Lewis

“Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever.”

Ewan McGregor - Christian

“I'd like to ask you about your hobbies... Now when you sacrifice a goat and you rip its heart out with your bare hands, do you then summon hellfire? Or do you just send out for a pizza?”

Ewan McGregor - Alex Law

“If you ask me we're heterosexual by default, not by decision. It's just a question of who you fancy. It's all about aesthetics and it's fuck all to do with morality.”
Ewan McGregor - Mark Renton

“- Peter MacMannus: You are the best friend a guy with twenty diagnosed neuroses ever had.
- Catcher Block: We've been friends a long time... I knew you when you only had twelve.”
David Hyde Pierce - Peter MacMannus
Ewan McGregor - Catcher Block

“She said that the biggest fish in the river gets that way by never getting caught.”
Ewan McGregor - Ed Bloom - Young

“- Andy: I'm not a kid any more, Jim, right?
- Jim: Old enough to be a scab then?
- Ernie: It's all right, Andy. He doesn't mean it.
- Andy: You don't mess around with words like that.
- Jim: I'm sorry, Andy. I take it back. You're just a stupid fucker.”
Ewan McGregor - Andy
Philip Jackson - Jim
Peter Martin - Ernie

“Then I'll write a song and we'll put it in the show, and whenever you sing it, or hear it, or whistle or hum it then you'll know it'll mean that we love one another.”
Ewan McGregor - Christian

“- Toulouse-Lautrec: Things aren't always as they seem.
- Christian: Things are exactly the way they seem.”
John Leguizamo - Toulouse-Lautrec
Ewan McGregor - Christian

“I really am the luckiest guy in the world. Several years of addiction right in the middle of an epidemic, surrounded by the living dead. But not me. I'm negative. It's official. And once the pain goes away, that's when the real battle starts. Depression, boredom... you feel so fucking low, you want to fucking top yourself.”
Ewan McGregor - Mark Renton

“- Christian: Love is like oxygen!
- Satine: What?
- Christian: Love is a many splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!”
Ewan McGregor - Christian
Nicole Kidman - Satine

“Don't let your personal feelings get in the way!”

Ewan McGregor - Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi

“- Meneer Chrome: Deep inside... there is a darkness.
- Juliana: I feel there is. I can't be sure. It would need an expert touch to discover and comfirm it.
- Meneer Chrome: Perhaps if Monsieur Larousse was here he would be able to verify.
- Juliana: But in the absence of Monsieur Larousse...
- Meneer Chrome: I am not worthy.”

Ewan McGregor - Meneer Chrome
Greta Scacchi - Juliana

“- Sick Boy: At one time, you've got it, and then you lose it, and it's gone forever. All walks of life: George Best, for example. Had it, lost it. Or David Bowie, or Lou Reed...
- Renton: Some of his solo stuff's not bad.
- Sick Boy: No, it's not bad, but it's not great either. And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds all right...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jonny Lee Miller - Sick Boy
Ewan McGregor - Mark Renton

“I could learn new languages to make you understood all over the world.”

Ewan McGregor - Jerome

“- Al: Nice-looking woman.
- Robert Lewis: She isn't my type.
- Al: What are you talking about? Look at yourself. You're nothing. You're nobody. You're wanted in connection with a violent crime. You're cleaning the floor of a diner. She is an intelligent, passionate, beautiful, rich woman.”

Tony Shalhoub - Al
Ewan McGregor - Robert Lewis

“- Diane: You're not getting any younger, Mark. The world's changing. Music's changing. Even drugs are changing. You can't stay in here all day dreaming about heroin and Ziggy Pop.
- Renton: It's Iggy Pop.
- Diane: Whatever. I mean, the guy's dead anyway.
- Renton: Iggy Pop's not dead. He toured last year! Tommy went to see him.
- Diane: The...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kelly Macdonald - Diane
Ewan McGregor - Mark Renton

“- Renton: I'll come back with you if you like, but like, I'm not promising anything, you know.
- Diane: Do you find that this approach usually works? Or let me guess, you've never tried it before. In fact, you don't normally approach girls, am I right?”
Ewan McGregor - Mark Renton
Kelly Macdonald - Diane

“- Alex Law: If you see I'm dying up there you'll call the police and tell them everything, right?
- Juliet Miller: Everything.
- Alex Law: Except that maybe it was his idea in the first place. Now that's important to me. I need to die misunderstood.”
Ewan McGregor - Alex Law
Kerry Fox - Juliet Miller

“- Andy: Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, hey ladies?
- Vera: Aye, but we can do without the drugs and rock 'n' roll!”
Ewan McGregor - Andy
Sue Johnston - Vera

“- Meneer Chrome: The Larousse collection specializes in dark plants, often black. Primula Arricula. Canna Indica. Tulipfera Nigra. Anemone Atrocarrulea.
- Juliana: I would be unacceptable then in a Larousse collection.
- Meneer Chrome: Oh, I think you would be rare enough, exotic enough.
- Juliana: But my skin is white.”
Ewan McGregor - Meneer Chrome
Greta Scacchi - Juliana

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
Ewan McGregor - Curt Wild

“My first impression, and they're rarely wrong, is that you have none of the qualities that we normally seek in a prospective flatmate. I'm talking here about things like presence, charisma, style and charm, and I don't think we're asking too much, I don't think we're being unreasonable. Take David here, for instance: a chartered accountant he...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ewan McGregor - Alex Law

“- Gloria: Do you want to come up for a coffee?
- Andy: I don't drink coffee.
- Gloria: I haven't got any.”
Tara Fitzgerald - Gloria
Ewan McGregor - Andy