Top 66 Clive Owen Quotes

When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.

I’m not better than anyone else.

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don’t need to be hit on the head.

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

I always want my options to be open.

I was at the birth of my two girls.

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don’t necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

For me, London is and always will be home.

Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

I don’t play video games.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there’s no question.

Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.

I actually really love working with young actors because they’re so responsive and instinctive, and it’s a much less honed craft that they’re employing.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I’ve never seen any of my characters as baddies.

Audiences can be very judgmental.

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

I’m a huge fan of ‘The Exorcist.’

I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages – he believed that if you crumpled them, you’d be insane in a year.

If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what’s important.

I’m interested in playing all kinds of parts.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I’m a dad and I hang with my girls.

I come from a very working-class background.

I can’t remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven‘t done most of it.

I have a problem with a lot of men‘s fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.

I never wanted to be a movie star.

I’d love to do a Western.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

It’s just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics – characters and great writing.

I’m not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills.

The worst piece of advice I’ve gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, ‘Remember, it’s all about likeability.’

I’ve done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I’m a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

Rudeness can make me angry.

When there’s an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.

I’m the git in the family.

Good dialogue is very important.

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

As I get older, I’ve been having a better and better time.

I am comfortable around babies and children because I have two of my own.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a real fashion disaster.

I was not a very fearful kid, really.

Jewelery isn’t really my thing, but I’ve always got my eye on people’s watches.

You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.

I would never give anybody any advice about anything.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It’s a craft, and I’m constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.

I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can’t sing – that is why.

I can honestly say I’ve never chosen a film because where it’s shot is convenient.

I think it’s dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

I’m not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don’t notice you.

I’m just a working actor.

I don’t do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I’m too heavy.

I’m sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, ‘Oh, we should film this,’ as opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can’t sustain a career in just English movies.

I had to ride a horse once. In ‘King Arthur.’ I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That’s what I believe.

There’s not a big gun culture in England at all still.

Very often when you see families it’s all perfect and neat, and parenting isn’t like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

There’s something to play if there’s conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that’s where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you’ve got something to play, there’s layers to it.

I do wear suits all the time.

I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.