234 Quotes by Clive Owen

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I actually really love working with young actors because they’re so responsive and instinctive, and it’s a much less honed craft that they’re employing.

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

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.