Owen Wilson Sayings

#1. Movies such as this remind us that Owen Wilson is nothing less than a national treasure.

Roger Moore

#2. You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.

Vince Vaughn

#3. I would have loved to have been in 'Bottle Rocket' to take over Owen Wilson's character Dignan, because he's just awesome and amazing. I would have loved to have been in 'The Darjeeling Limited' maybe. I think that would have been a good one to be in.

Tony Revolori

#4. You know you're in love when you wear condoms while having sex with other women.

Owen Wilson

#5. I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

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#6. I like the Valentino store in Rome.Because in Rome when I'd be riding my bike, that store is right next to the Spanish Steps, and it gets so crowded there, so I could sometimes duck into the Valentino store and go up to the top floor and have a little espresso and just relax and take it easy.

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#7. In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.

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#8. Being in a bathtub with Jackie Chan, I don't know, it has a way of bonding you I'll tell you that. I don't know if there are some weird undertones. It was like we had met in Los Angeles and we didn't have that much to say to each other but, after that bathtub scene, we were great friends.

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#9. Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

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#10. It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

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#11. You can't get too attached to any one shampoo. And conditioner, also.

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#12. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

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#13. I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.

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#14. Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

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#15. We didn't know what the reception was going to be when we walked out on the runway, but it felt like we were in a rock band. People started cheering. It was a nice way to begin Zoolander 2, with that kind of reception.

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#16. It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.

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#17. I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.

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#18. Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

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#19. That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

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#20. You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

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#21. I think for Wes [Anderson] and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance.

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#22. Maybe because I began as a writer, I have a good ear for dialogue, and maybe being an English major - and that I also read a lot as a kid - if I hear somebody say something that I think's funny, or I find a situation or story, I'll try to work that into the movie.

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#23. There's something people find hilarious about dogs surfing and dancing and talking in the movies. I think it's nice for people - I think it's wish fulfillment - to see animals talking.

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#24. I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.

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#25. I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

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#26. It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.

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#27. We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums.

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#28. I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.

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#29. My mother photographed Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas, right before he passed away. He was actually the first artist whose work I collected. I just loved the photographs that my mom had done of Donald Judd and the installations in Marfa.

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#30. The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.

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#31. I became sort of an aficionado on the Valentino pajamas, because I like those so much.

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#32. True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another.

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#33. I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.

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#34. I think somebody like Wes [Anderson] has a very good sense of style and is original. I think my sense of style got a little bit better after I was exposed to you guys at Valentino. Because I'm just in Hawaii and Malibu; it's just kind of T-shirts and surfing-type stuff.

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#35. I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West.

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#36. Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.

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#37. I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.

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#38. I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me.

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#39. Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.

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#40. Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art.

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#41. You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

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