Clive Owen Quotes
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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We care about margins.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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A well begun is half ended.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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When you're reading, like, a character's thoughts, or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me, that's what the whole point of fiction is.
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When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.
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My design philosophy is to make women feel like peacocks.
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Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
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I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.
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I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
