Clive Owen Quotes
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Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
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I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.
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There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.
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You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.
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Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.
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The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
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I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
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Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
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I guess I'm not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can't honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should.
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I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.
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I do wear suits all the time.
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I'm just a working actor.
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I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
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Good dialogue is very important.
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You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
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My wife needs her freedom just like me.
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I do get clocked. But it's not invasive to the point where it's upsetting. It doesn't encroach.
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When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.
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The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.
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I'd like to do a film which is funny.
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I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.
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I had to ride a horse once. In 'King Arthur.' I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.
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I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.
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I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.