Clive Owen Quotes
One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
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It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
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I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat.
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There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.
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I'd like to see a ghost. It would confirm there's an afterlife.
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I'm obviously aware that most people don't agree with me, that people like to escape into a coherent world that is apart from their own.
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I still want to make Kyra proud of the person I am - father, husband, actor, musician.
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One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.
