Top 100 Clive Owen Quotes
#1. For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.
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#2. 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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#3. I always want my options to be open.
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#4. I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
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#7. I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.
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#8. I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.
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#9. As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.
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#11. I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.
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#12. 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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#13. Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.
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#14. I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.
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#15. I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.
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#16. I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.
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#17. I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.
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#18. I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.
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#19. For an actor, it's very important to get a clear idea of what a director wants, and their intention for what they want to get out of a scene and how they want to shoot it. Having that knowledge is really valuable, for an actor. It means you can deliver more.
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#20. Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.
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#21. The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.
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#22. As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.
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#23. Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.
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#24. A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an acting point of view, it's easier to do my job, if I'm included in what the intentions are, for why people are doing what they're doing, especially with a director.
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#25. 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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#26. I would never give anybody any advice about anything.
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#28. I was at the birth of my two girls.
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#29. It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.
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#30. I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.
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#32. There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.
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#36. 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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#37. I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.
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#38. Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.
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#39. I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.
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#40. I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.
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#41. For me really good acting is about subtext.
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#43. 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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#44. I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.
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#45. Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.
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#46. I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
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#47. Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.
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#48. I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.
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#49. I was not a very fearful kid, really.
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#50. I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.
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#51. You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.
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#53. 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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#54. I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
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#55. The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
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#56. I'm always very aware of the physical challenges of work. I train much more than I did when I was in my twenties, and I've done some very physical films, and I always get properly prepared for them and get as fit as I can.
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#57. You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.
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#58. America's been very, very good to me. I've been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I've done.
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#59. I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.
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#60. The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.
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#61. I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.
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#62. I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.
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#63. If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.
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#64. I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.
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#65. I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.
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#66. I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.
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#67. The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.
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#68. Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
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#69. One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are and where you are. There are parts for that age that you can bring things to.
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#70. I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.
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#71. It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
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#72. I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.
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#73. I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.
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#75. I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.
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#76. 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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#77. The medical operations are so challenging because they're so technical, as well. I assumed before we started that we would do the classic thing, when it comes to the operations, that we would do all of these inserts with real doctors.
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#78. You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.
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#79. The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.
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#80. I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.
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#81. For me, London is and always will be home.
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#82. No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.
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#83. I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.
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#84. I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
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#86. When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.
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#87. A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.
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#88. Without faith, without belief in something, what are we?
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#89. One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.
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#90. I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.
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#91. I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.
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#92. I've got an age that I do think of myself.
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#93. Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.
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#94. I'm a big fan of comedies and dramas, and I watch tons of movies.
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#95. I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.
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#96. I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about.
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#98. I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film this,' as opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.
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#99. I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.
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#100. I don't just like to have 1 take, but not too many. I think it is good to keep it alive.
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