Clive Owen Quotes

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I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.

I certainly don’t think of myself as an action hero.
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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 am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
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It’s just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basicscharacters and great writing.
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I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
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I don’t think I’ve ever had a real fashion disaster.
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I come from a very working-class background.
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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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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 just love playing good guys.
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I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
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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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Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.
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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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After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages – he believed that if you crumpled them, you’d be insane in a year.
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As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.
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I’ve had some great times with actresses, but that’s in a movie.
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I can honestly say I’ve never chosen a film because where it’s shot is convenient.
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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’m a huge fan of ‘The Exorcist.’
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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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I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.
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When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.
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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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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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I don’t play video games.
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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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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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I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don’t notice you.
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For me really good acting is about subtext.
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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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I am comfortable around babies and children because I have two of my own.
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I’d love to do a Western.
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Good dialogue is very important.
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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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For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.
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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 always want my options to be open.
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I go off and make movies; I come home, and I’m a dad and I hang with my girls.
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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 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 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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I’m the git in the family.
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For me, London is and always will be home.
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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 want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.
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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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I’m just a working actor.
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After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ I played Romeo.
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I’ve been very fortunate with the scripts I’ve had and the people I worked with.
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Obviously, I’m attracted to heavier movies.
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There’s not a big gun culture in England at all still.
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I was at the birth of my two girls.
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As I get older, I’ve been having a better and better time.
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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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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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Jewelery isn’t really my thing, but I’ve always got my eye on people’s watches.
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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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I’m not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
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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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