Clive Owen Quotes
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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 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 was not a very fearful kid, really.
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I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.
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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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There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.
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My wife needs her freedom just like me.
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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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I'd like to do a film which is funny.
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I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don't notice you.
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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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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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As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 don't play video games.
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I just love playing good guys.
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I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'