234 Quotes by Clive Owen

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

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 was very keen on playing a victim.

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

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

I was not a very fearful kid, really.

I would never give anybody any advice about anything.

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

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.