Love & Passion Quote by Ewan McGregor

McGregor’s confession lands with the disarming bluntness of someone refusing to sanitize how desire actually forms. It’s not “I admired them” or “I was inspired.” It’s “I fell in love” and then, abruptly, the physical punchline: “And want to have sex with them.” The jump is the point. He collapses the polite cultural story we tell about childhood fandom into its messier engine: attraction, projection, and the electric confusion of seeing adulthood performed under stage lights.

The intent reads as both self-mythologizing and demystifying. He’s sketching an origin story for an actor that isn’t about craft or destiny, but about libido and imagination colliding in a public place. The theatre becomes a sanctioned zone where fantasies are allowed to run hot; the performer, elevated and unreachable, is a perfect screen for a kid to paste feelings onto. In that sense, it’s less a scandalous admission than an honest description of how celebrity works: the audience doesn’t just watch, they participate, emotionally and bodily, even if only in their head.

The subtext also flatters performance itself. Pantomime and theatre are exaggerated forms, built to be legible from the back row; they manufacture intensity. McGregor’s “always, always” is rhythmic emphasis, like he’s insisting this wasn’t a one-off crush but a recurring script. Coming from a movie star, it quietly suggests that the desire he felt as a child is the same desire he later learned to trigger in others: a feedback loop between stage, screen, and the people who can’t help falling for whoever stands in the light.