A biography for Clive Owenhasn’t been written yet.
“I was at the birth of my two girls.”
“If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.”
“I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.”
“I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.”
“I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don't notice you.”
“I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.”
“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.”
“For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.”
“When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.”
“I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.”
“If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.”
“Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.”
“Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.”
“I'm not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills.”
“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.”
“As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.”
“Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.”
“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'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.”
“I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.”