Clive Owen Quotes
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There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.
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As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.
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Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
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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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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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I'd like to do a film which is funny.
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I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
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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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My wife needs her freedom just like me.
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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 feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.
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I'm just a working actor.
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Good dialogue is very important.
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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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The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
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The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.'
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A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
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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 am comfortable around babies and children because I have two of my own.
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I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.
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I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.
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There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.
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I just love playing good guys.