"He's quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life" on his co-star Hayden Christensen

I find it usually works to my advantage to make women wait."
to a fan waiting to have her picture taken with him

"I've got a film I'd like to be in her with." on the red carpet,referring to the lovely Halle Berry and making a very understandable Freudian slip

"In real life, you don't get up with the sheet after you've had sex," he says. "Its not like I'll play a carpenter and wear nothing but a tool belt while constructing a dresser.That's just not safe." Aussie Who Weekly 2002

"I needed to go and just find out exactly what it meant to be out and having fun in a kind of hedonistic and debauched environment. That's right, something I wasn't familiar with." researching for Moulin Rouge"

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?"on Moulin Rouge

Lying down from 50 feet, I was perfect. So I could really kill someone. Which is always good to know."On learing how to use a gun in Black Hawk Down

"Do you want to do Star Wars they said? I said too f***** right!"

"Nicole, Knickers, as I call her. I would swear, burp and fart in front of her. I'd try and embarrass her and she would pretend to be shocked. I always played up on that. It was a real elder sister-younger brother relationship.'

"There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear." on coming home to Scotland.

She's really giggly and you can make her laugh. A lot. I'd be very rude in front of her, swear a lot and belch and she'd say, "Ew-an!" Like a big sister with her younger brother. We had that sort of relationship where I would constantly be embarrassing her. But I used to play on it, and it amused me that this was Nicole Kidman and I could behave like this in front of her."

"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." On Nicole Kidman's character in Moulin Rouge

"He's quite the gentleman, Obi-Wan. But I don't think he'd have any problems pulling if he wanted to. You know, as a Jedi, he's not allowed to fall in love or get involved with that. So I suppose by now, he's just got really big balls…" Empire Magazine June 2002

"I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I'm really worried about myself.I was actually enjoying it."

"Did you see the dykes on bikes? Oh, you see that's where I belong!With a million lesbians on motorcycles! at Sydney Mardi Gras Gay Parade

"My lightsaber flew out of my hands. No one tells you the sabers have about 10 'D'batteries in them. They burn your hands... I tossed the saber in the air and it ended up hitting a technician in the head."Twist Magazine.

There was some cheese, but it was an acceptable amount of cheese. at the 2002 MTV Awards

"When Daniel opened the door and saw me for the first time, George wanted him to look very suspicious of me. I just told him to pretend like I 'd done a really bad fart. Surpise and bad smells register a similar expression in the face. He was brilliant." on his first scene with Daniel Logan (young Boba Fett)

"...every so often during the day I'd have a Star Wars moment -- I'd go 'Whoopee! Star Wars! Whoopee!'

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."

"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."

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 bitch 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."

"I've always wanted to go to Hollywood, drive big cars and be in big movies. But I hope I won't do just any film to become a star. I just want to carry on working, acting. I don't want to direct or write. I think making films is brillant. I get excited just going on a film set. Going on location is amazing, hanging about with all these film people doing their thing. If I bump into a star I get all star-struck."

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

"People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, 'What? You're married?' Strange reaction to have. Proves what people's ideas about marriage are. 'We're having a baby.' 'WHAT?' As if it's the end of the world. Of course, it's the start of a brillant world."

"I don't consider myself one. Women don't throw undies at me. I wish they would!

"I'm naked a lot of the time, and they don't try to frame planted pots in front of my d**k 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, 'C**k shot!' I've been naked in almost everything I've been in, really. I have it written into my contract."

"Actually, I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting."

"An airport customs inspector once recognised me from Trainspotting and strip searched me looking for drugs"

"I'm waiting for the right moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real lightsaber."

"I smoke a lot. I drink far too much-I don't excercise. I torture small animals." Ewan On his sex appea

"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!’ And then I made a point of her wearing it everytime we went there." On an experience during the filming of A Life Less Ordinary in Utah

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 Moulin Rouge.

"I'll get in touch with Nicole now and again. Definitely. Because she's a skanky old whore and I love her for it."

It's F**** great being me!