Clive Owen Quotes

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

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.

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

I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

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

There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.

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

I was at the birth of my two girls.

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

Good dialogue is very important.

Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.

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.

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

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

I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

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.

I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.

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

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.

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.

The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.

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

Rudeness can make me angry.

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.

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.

Audiences can be very judgmental.

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

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

Acting is all about likability.

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.

For me, London is and always will be home.

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.

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

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

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

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

When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with that. Some of the finest acting I've ever come across has been for film.

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.

You come ready to work when you know that you are going to get a couple of gos and it. It kind of galvanizes everything and there is something about it that keeps it very alive.

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 would never give anybody any advice about anything.

Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

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 just like to have 1 take, but not too many. I think it is good to keep it alive.