Best 88 quotes of Clive Owen on MyQuotes

After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

Death frees the beast.

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.

Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh.

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.

For me, London is and always will be home.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

Good dialogue is very important.

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.

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.

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.

I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.

I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.

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.

I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.

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.

I don’t mind looking like I need a good wash and a good meal... Any actor who starts taking ‘sex symbol’ seriously or thinks of themselves as a sex symbol has got some serious problems.

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.

I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.

I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.

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.

I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.

I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

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.

I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.

I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don't notice you.