Clive Owen Quotes

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

Clive Owen

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• 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.

  

  Young Buck
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • My Life

• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• 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.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Film
  • Person
  • Certain

• Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

  

  Ovid
  • Return
  • Wave
  • Nor

• 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.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Me
  • Dad

• We care about margins.

  

  Barry Lam
  • 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.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Popular

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• 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.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Space

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Think
  • Future
  • Party

• The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Choice

• 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.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Star
  • Idea
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Like
  • Person
  • Choice

• A well begun is half ended.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Half
  • Well
  • Ended

• What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Think
  • Change

• Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Action
  • Conversation

• I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Writing
  • Character

• I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Bible

• The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.

  

  George Eliot
  • Music
  • Beauty
  • Tenderness

• “You excuse yourself saying, “I cannot perform acts of charity because I have no money.” Why do you think you need money to practice charity? What about the charity of a smile and a warm handshake, the charity of human compassion and understanding, the charity of a visit or a remembrance in your prayers?”

  

  Nguyen Van Thuan
  • Money
  • Compassion
  • Charity

• I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

  

  Clive Owen
  • Character
  • Action
  • Fighting