Clive Owen Quotes
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
Quotes to Explore
-
You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
-
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
-
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.
-
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
-
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.
-
We care about margins.
-
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.
-
We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
-
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
-
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.
-
I'm a warrior for the middle class.
-
We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
-
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
A well begun is half ended.
-
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
-
Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
-
We said, as we were developing 'Iron Man 1,' and working on these films, that our characters need to be as interesting out of their costumes as they are inside their costumes, fighting and flying around.
-
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
-
When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.
-
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
