Clive Owen Quotes

I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.

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

I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.

For me, London is and always will be home.

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

I do wear suits all the time.

I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'

I'm the git in the family.

I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

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

Audiences can be very judgmental.

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

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

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

Rudeness can make me angry.

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

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.

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

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

I was at the birth of my two girls.

Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.

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

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've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about.

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

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

Without faith, without belief in something, what are we?

Death frees the beast.

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

Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

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.

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

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

I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.

I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.

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.

I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.

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.

There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent.

I never aspired to be anything. What I've done is beyond my wildest.

When I look back, if I'd played something differently, it might not have gone the way it did. So I don't feel like going back to my twenties and changing anything.

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.

America's been very, very good to me. I've been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I've done.

When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with that. Some of the finest acting I've ever come across has been for film.

I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.

I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.

I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.

I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.

I'm a big fan of comedies and dramas, and I watch tons of movies.