Clive Owen Quotes

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Lost Friendship

  "Interview:Clive Owen & Jude Law" by Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 10, 2004.

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• It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

  Clive Owen

  Important, Treated

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Clive Owen

  Challenges, Get Better, Trying

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• I always want my options to be open.

  Clive Owen

  Want

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• 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.

  Clive Owen

  Actors, Treats, Young

  Source: collider.com

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

  Clive Owen

  Believe, Eye, Body

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

  Clive Owen

  Giving, Challenges, Trying

  Interview with RZA, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2015.

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• You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

  Clive Owen

  Actors, Emotion

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• 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

  Challenges, Twenties, Done

  Source: www.gq.com

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• 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.

  Clive Owen

  Tired, Acting, Want

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• 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

  Mirrors, Faces, Currency

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• 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

  Careers, Important, Reason

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.

  Clive Owen

  Running, Up To You, Exhausted

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• Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

  Clive Owen

  Family, Inspiring, Parenting

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• Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

  Clive Owen

  Kids, Parenting, Perfect

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• I do wear suits all the time.

  Clive Owen

  Suits

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

  Clive Owen

  Thinking, Careers, Ideas

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• 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.

  Clive Owen

  Stupid, Doe, Journalism

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• It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

  Clive Owen

  Movie, Writing, Character

  "Clive Owen & Jude Law". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 10, 2004.

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• I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

  Clive Owen

  Thinking, Directors

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 20, 2011.

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• 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

  Discipline, People, Trying

  Interview with RZA, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2015.

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• I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

  Clive Owen

  Roles, Actors, Research

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• 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

  Jumping, People, Joy

  Interview with RZA, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Good dialogue is very important.

  Clive Owen

  Important, Dialogue

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

  Clive Owen

  Cancer, Choices, Used

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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