Clive Owen Quotes

There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent.

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 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 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.

Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape.

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.

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.

I was not a very fearful kid, really.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

Something I don't like seeing in other people is naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. That's the way I look at that word - like you must be stepping on someone to get there. And I've never been comfortable with that.

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.

Death frees the beast.

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've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.

Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm a big fan of comedies and dramas, and I watch tons of movies.

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

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.

When I look back, if I'd played something differently, it might not have gone the way it did. So I don't feel like going back to my twenties and changing anything.

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.

I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.

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

I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.