A biography for Clive Owenhasn’t been written yet.
“You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.”
“After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.”
“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'm not better than anyone else.”
“I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.”
“I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.”
“As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.”
“Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.”
“I'd like to do a film which is funny.”
“I'd love to do a Western.”
“I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.”
“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 always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.”
“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.”
“I'm just a working actor.”
“I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.”
“I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.”
“I do wear suits all the time.”
“The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.”
“The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.'”