Zitat des Tages von Clive Owen:
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.
One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.
I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.
I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.
I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.
After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.
I am comfortable around babies and children because I have two of my own.
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.
Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
My wife needs her freedom just like me.
I was not a very fearful kid, really.
You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.
I never wanted to be a movie star.
Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.
I'm just a working actor.
I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
I guess I'm not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can't honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should.
As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.
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.
I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.
Rudeness can make me angry.
The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
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.
You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.
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.
I just love playing good guys.
A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.
I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.
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.
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 don't think I've ever had a real fashion disaster.
I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.
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.
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.