Clive Owen

Clive Owen

18 quotes

The British actor Clive Owen (b. 1964) is remembered as much for penetrating words as for professional achievements. With equal ease, Clive Owen moved between Movies and Home, finding connections others missed. 25 of Clive Owen's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Movies, Home, Family, Parenting, and Best. Consider this gem from Clive Owen: "I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls."

“I'm the git in the family.”

— Clive Owen

Family

All Quotes by Clive Owen

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

— Clive Owen

Cool

“I'd like to do a film which is funny.”

— Clive Owen

Funny

“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

Best

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

— Clive Owen

Best

“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.”

— Clive Owen

Travel

“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.”

— Clive Owen

Age

“For me, London is and always will be home.”

— Clive Owen

Home

“Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.”

— Clive Owen

Family

“Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.”

— Clive Owen

Movies

“My wife needs her freedom just like me.”

— Clive Owen

Freedom

“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

Movies

“I'm the git in the family.”

— Clive Owen

Family

“I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.”

— Clive Owen

Dad

“I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.”

— Clive Owen

Movies

“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

Parenting

“Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.”

— Clive Owen

Movies

“I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.”

— Clive Owen

Marriage

“The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.”

— Clive Owen

Movies