Clive Owen Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 3, 1964

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Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

Joey Kramer

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The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.

John Edwards

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Patience is the best medicine.

John Florio

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I'm really not techno-savvy - that's just not my personality.

Andie MacDowell

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I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself.

John Oliver

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I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

John McGahern

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There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good person to follow. I never tweet, and when I do, it's about some sort of sporting event that I'm watching.

Sterling Knight

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As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.

Simon Cowell

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We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.

Julia Butterfly Hill

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I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a character - a living breathing thing with personality and backstory. The way stories come to life, at least for me, is when these elements commune in relationship to one another.

Jason Reynolds

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Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

Conan O'Brien

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When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Clint Eastwood

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