"I knew every word in the movie. I like Princess Leia's lines best. It was a shame I couldn't play her!"
-Ewan on STAR WARS when he was kid

"I don't consider myself one. Women don't throw undies at me. I wish they would!"
-Ewan on what it's like to be a sex symbol

"My dad saw my full package in Pillow Book and said 'I'm glad to see you inherited one of my major attributes'"

"I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies and now I'm just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible"

"There was this trend in the '80s of gratuitous sex scenes where women were always naked and men never were. So I just thought I was doing it for the sisters"

"So if you're ever in the Honduras jungle and you find a bunch of problems lying around, they're mine. And you're welcome to all of them."

"I love the ladies, and if the ladies love me, that's a good thing"

Ewan on Satine: "What you've got to remember, always, is that she is just a skanky whore."
Ewan on Nicole Kidman: "She's a skanky old whore and I love her for it."

Q: "What celeb would you like to see naked?"
Ewan: "I'd like to see me naked. Now that would be novel."

"I'm naked a lot of the time, and they don't try to frame planted pots in front of my dick like they do in most other films. It's all part of the story, but they don't zoom in on it or anything and go, 'Cock shot!' I've been naked in almost everything I've been in, really. I have it written into my contract."

"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!'"

"Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant -- does it get any better than this?"
-Ewan on Moulin Rouge

"I don't know if I'd ever had more fun in my work. Singing and dancing in a movie, I've been wanting to do all my life. I drove everyone nuts because I was too excited, but I just felt hell, nobody's done this for years and years. Not like this."
-Ewan on his excitement for Moulin Rouge

Not strictly a quote but i love this, it's soooo funny!!
The first day of filming of Star Wars episode one in the Tunisian desert. They're filming a lightsaber duel between Ewan and Liam Neeson. Suddenly Liam drops his lightsaber and storms off. The crew burst out laughing. George Lucas is sitting there stoney faced. Ewan is baffled and can't work out what he has done wrong. Eventually George Lucas gets up and walks up to him, still completely stoney faced. "Ewan", he says, "Don't make the noises."

"Ewan walked in the door, and it was like there was a sign above his head saying, 'Rock god! Rock god!'" Ross says. "And as soon as he opened his mouth, he just blew me away."
-Andrew Ross, singing coach

"I'm still driven. I can't stop it. They keep giving me scripts. Everyone tells me to slow down. F*ck off! Why?"

"It was my dream to be up there. When the curtains open and the lights go down and it says 'Ewan McGregor' it's like, 'Yesssss'!"
-Ewan on seeing his name on the screen.

"He's got that thing Tom Hanks has. He's like the guy next door. He's got that ordinariness-- that's his nature. There's something quite naughty about Ewan as well. Very naughty."
-Danny Boyle, director

"I kept telling Nicole as we were filming, 'You'll be driving along, and you'll hear us singing in the car next to you.' That would be just the best thing."
-Ewan on dreaming of hearing 'Come What May' on the radio

"I use to say she was a skanky whore, which really pissed her off. But, yes. She plays a courtesan. A high-class whore. A high-class skanky whore."
-Ewan on Nicole Kidman's character in Moulin Rouge

"I'd say, 'You're meant to be in love with me! You cannot refer to me as a skanky old whore!' And he'd go, 'Oh yeah...Sorry.'"
-Nicole Kidman on working with Ewan in Moulin Rouge

"I hated Clueless with a passion. I thought it would have been a really good film if someone had blown her head off at the end with a really huge gun. I mean, this rich b**ch suddenly becomes charitable and then she's okay? And then there's the token black friend. It was so corrupt, so L.A., I hated it."
-Ewan in Teen Magazine, September 1997

"I smoke a lot. I drink far too much-I don't excercise. I torture small animals."
"I don't consider myself one. Women don't throw undies at me. I wish they would!"
-Ewan on being a sex symbol

"I've never had a garden before, It's very uncool to be into gardening but I f***ing love it. I've got my wee shed. With stuff. Ha ha. Shed stuff"

"I was never hard enough to do anything criminal. Such a nice laddie"
-Ewan on his childhood

According to Cosmopolitan he is the third sexiest man in the world.
EWAN: But what does that mean?
Chris Heath, interviewer: It means that if you were on a desert island with George Clooney, Keanu Reeves and two women, you'd be on your own.
EWAN: (Hoots) Aye. I'd be in the bushes, having a wank. "George! Just leave me a wee bit!"

"No f**kin' worries there, darling."
-Ewan's response to a reporter who asked if he was worried about "shrinkage" during the making of The Pillow Book

"I don't give directors a choice, I just love showing my willy!!"

"I had extra thick lightsabers because mine were getting bent more than anybody else's. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like "oops, sorry! Mine's bent again!"

"I was so excited! I stood in front of the mirror wearing my full costume and just f**king wet myself!"

"I'm in a Star Wars movie! Me!"

"The women in L.A. are really scary. Someone should tell them, 'You don't look any younger. You just look uncomfortable and weird."

"I won't buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies."

"Pleasure? I ride motorbikes. And I play with my daughter. And I sit in pubs."

"I think there should be more sex in it!"
-Ewan reagrding what he thought should be in the script for "Moulin Rouge

"i had this obsession with oasis 4 years ago or 3 years ago..but i got over..after their last album i got over that (he realized he just dissed them on TV).....oops!"

question: "Any tips on growing a beard?"
ewan's answer: "Let it flow! Let it run wild! Be free! Be manly!"

question: "This Christmas I was given some underwear with you, as Obi-Wan Kenobi, plastered all over them. How strange is it for you to know that your face graces my pants on a daily basis?"
ewan's answer: "F***ing hell! What a f***ing brilliant question! Although I'm glad you said it was your pants and not anything else - that I grace. Basically I'm flattered... What else can I say?"

question: "In an interview about your latest movie, Eye Of The Beholder, you said you stalked random people on the street, just to see how easy or difficult it would be. Did you ever get caught?
ewan's answer: "I didnt get caught doing it. I did get recognised though, but thankfully not when I was in stalking mode. Its quite interesting to do, but incredibly difficult particularly following cars, because you have to deal with traffic and all sorts. Actually, I bought a telescope as well and I used to look through peoples windows from my flat. Now that is really good fun. Its amazing what some people do with their curtains open..."

question: "What does your wife think about all the crazy female fans?"
ewan's answer: "What crazy female fans? You know, its funny - everyone thinks its like being a rock star, with women barging down your trouser door. But it could not be more different. I ride to work every day on my motorbike and theres never anyone at the studio gate. Every morning I arrive and think, 'Where the f**k are they?' (laughs) So its not really a reality."

"You get a tension in the eyebrows to represent an... incredible... amount... of... deep... thought. What you are actually thinking is, What am I going to eat when I get home?"

"I stood there in my platform shoes and just went quietly mad. Then I had to walk back to the set, reminding myself that I was sworn to secrecy and couldn't tell a soul. I wasn't even allowed to tell my wife. I just walked around all day with this huge grin on my face. I just couldn't wipe it off. People were asking me if I was OK. Probably thought I was on drugs. At the end of the day, I just had to tell someone. So I thought, 'Sod it, I'll tell my wife.' And, it was like, 'Yeaaaaagh!' One of the great moments. I mean, people talk about dreams coming true. But this was, quite literally, a dream come true."
-Ewan on getting the role of Obi-Wan

"I picked one that had a little mauve button on it. And it has a great, really sexy, violent- looking handle.... I saw a clip of me drawing it and switching it on, and it was just an incredible sight. I was like, 'Fawwwwk.' People would want to touch it. I wouldn't let them. I got very possessive of it."
"I was going to steal it, but I didn't. I'm hoping maybe [George Lucas] will give it to me after the film opens. I want to have it - because it's mine!"
-Ewan on his lightsaber

"And there there was one man behind a desk. I forget his name unfortunately, coz I'd love to mention it right now [laughs] but I don't know who he was"
-Ewan on the judge who turned him down at RADA.

Ewan: "So, that was RADA. And I hope they're fu... I hope they're very sorry now"
Michael Parkinson: "But you used an interesting word when..."
Ewan: "I almost used a more interesting word a minute ago" [laughs]

Ewan: "And I'm more interested in making movies like that than making the big... I don't want to name any names!" [laughs]
Michael Parkinson: "So you don't want to do Titanic, you don't want to do Independence Day, you don't want to do any of those things"
Ewan: "I don't want to do Independence Day, that's for sure, no."

On Parkinson, Robbie Williams gets himself into a knee-touching situation with an embarrassed Parky...
Ewan: "I'm annoyed you touched his knee coz I always wanted to do that!"
So, to the whole studio in fits, Ewan and Robbie swap seats so Ewan can feel Parky's knee, and then they swap back

"I had to rodger Christian Bale. Or, at least, I had to pretend that I was rodgering him. We did the scene on a rooftop and the crew were on another because they wanted a long lens on it. So we started off nice and gentle and I've got the long wig on, tossing my hair about a bit. Then I got a bit faster. And it went on and on. I mean, I'm fu*king exhausted at this point. So I leaned over and whispered into Christian's ear, 'Christ, I would have come by now if we were doing it for real.' Then I looked around and the camera had been packed away and the crew were clearing the roof. I suppose they were too sensitive to tell us that they were done. Or, maybe, they thought we were enjoying ourselves and didn't want to spoil the fun."

"I don't care about Oscars. It's such self-aggrandizing nonsense. It's a way to manipulate people into believing that their choices are what's good. It's rubbish. They're looking after themselves. I'll be fu*king deliriously happy if I ever get one by the way. I'll go up there and cry and everything. But I don't value them, because I don't have one yet."

"Conservative's the last thing I am."

Interviewer: "Was it really you doing that cartwheel in A Life Less Ordinary?"
Ewan: "Yes, that was me! I do a wicked cartwheel - or at least, I like to think so. It actually came out of Danny seeing me do it when we were rehearsing the dancing with Cameron (Diaz). He liked it and put it in the movie."

Question: "What annoys you most?"
Ewan: "Cockroaches, nippy little bastards, one and all."

"And I can just imagine going on stage and shouting, 'Hello, London! We are The Juicy Meatballs!' I think that would be unreal"
-Ewan on the name of what his band would be.

"No one can swear like a Scotsman. It rolls off the tongue so beautifully."

Ewan: "We use to play a lot on public courses, just for something to do. When I was fourteen, I got thrown off a golf course for swearing. After every shot I would get really angry, screaming, 'F*ck! F*cking c*nt!' Eventually this guy drove up in a tractor and told me I had to leave because the other golfers had been complaining. So I had to walk back in shame with my clubs. I didn't play for a long time after that."
Interviewer: "Because you got ejected?"
Ewan: "No, I just got fed up being crap."

One Tuesday night, he and a friend were sitting and talking and drinking in Ewan's living room,when their driver came in - to join them for a drink, Ewan thought. Alas, it was morning, and they were due on the set, having completely forgotten to sleep. Fortunately, Ewan's low-life character was wearing sunglasses in that day's scene, so he could stumble his way through it and hide in dark corners between takes.
"It really doesn't make you feel clever. Your acting is absolutely for ****. So I haven't done it since." [He pauses again as another blot looms on his conscience.] "He lies!"

Ewan: "And they were really afraid that I might actually have some fun in my life, that was a huge threat to them. No fun in Utah. It says that when you drive in: 'No fun. In Utah. Thank you.'"

Ewan: "We used to watch movies a lot, didn't we? That's the one really nice thing about working in America - you get a video and TV in your trailer. That's something you don't get here."
Cameron: "Oh, you don't?"
Ewan: (camply) "I do now, darling."

Cameron: "I like to experience things totally different to what I know."
Ewan: "Crack cocaine, for instance." (Cameron guffaws)"Something I'm going to try later on this afternoon."
Cameron: "The first time wasn't enough, huh?"
Ewan: "It never is. Ha ha ha!"

"There were a few but they didn't shoot them. We did them, they just didn't have any film left. We did them out of work time. We were practising." (Cameron is in hysterics)
-Ewan's response to if they had any love scenes in A life Less Ordinary

THE FACE: "I've got to ask you about nudity, because you did total nudity in The Pillow Book..."
Ewan: "Love it."

"But at the same time when people ask me if I'd be so keen to flash my willy if it was small, I always think, 'Well how the f*ck am I supposed to know?!' Ahhhhh-ahhhhhhhhhhhh-ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"