234 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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.

There’s certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I’ve ended up.

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

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.

There’s something to play if there’s conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that’s where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you’ve got something to play, there’s layers to it.

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.