"In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly."

“There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.”

“The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 07, 2009

“I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.”

“One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!”

“He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.”

“I've never been a passive person. I've always felt that, if you think something should be changed, it's your responsibility to actively pursue that change.”

“Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.”

Source : "SFIFF ’11: Ewan McGregor & Mike Mills Talk The Sadness, Humor & Joy Of ‘Beginners’" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. April 25, 2011.

“Modesty is of no use to a beggar.”