86+ Clive Owen Quotes On Death, Prayer And Temptation

Clive Owen is an English actor who has starred in many films, including Closer, Sin City, Children of Men, and The Bourne Identity. He has also been the face of various campaigns for brands such as BMW, Lancôme, and Gillette. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and four BAFTA Awards. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Clive Owen on love, life, death.

Top 10 Clive Owen Quotes

1. 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.
2. Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
3. The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.
8. I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
9. 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.
10. 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.

Clive Owen Short Quotes

• I don't just like to have 1 take, but not too many. I think it is good to keep it alive.
• I've got an age that I do think of myself.
• I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.
• Death frees the beast.
• There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.
• I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.
• I was not a very fearful kid, really.
• I would never give anybody any advice about anything.
• I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.
• The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.

Clive Owen Quotes About Love

One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters. — Clive Owen

I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

Clive Owen Quotes About Life

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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

Clive Owen Quotes About Films

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie. — Clive Owen

I'd like to do a film which is funny. — Clive Owen

Clive Owen Quotes About Dialogue

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

Good dialogue is very important. — Clive Owen

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

Clive Owen Quotes About Working

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

Clive Owen Famous Quotes And Sayings

Acting is all about likability. — Clive Owen

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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

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. — Clive Owen

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

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

I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms. — Clive Owen

When you're doing those operation scenes, you not only have to be on top of the dialogue and the rhythm of the dialogue and what's happening dramatically, but you've got to technically get the rhythm right, so that everything is fitting with the dialogue at the right time. And you're performing the operation to the audience that's watching it. Thackery has to present it, as well. In some ways, that's the most challenging. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script. — Clive Owen

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

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. — Clive Owen

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

I never aspired to be anything. What I've done is beyond my wildest. — Clive Owen

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

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. — Clive Owen

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

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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

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

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

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. — Clive Owen

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

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

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

I was very keen on playing a victim. — Clive Owen

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

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. — Clive Owen

No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people. — Clive Owen

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

Without faith, without belief in something, what are we? — Clive Owen

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

The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, Remember, it's all about likeability. — Clive Owen

I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

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. — Clive Owen

Life Lessons by Clive Owen

1. Clive Owen's career is a testament to the power of hard work and dedication; despite starting out in small roles, he has gone on to have a successful career in both television and film.
2. His willingness to take risks and try different types of roles has enabled him to explore different aspects of his craft and keep his career fresh and exciting.
3. His success shows that it is possible to achieve great things with the right attitude and determination, no matter where you start from.