Top 100 Clive Owen Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.”

— Clive Owen

2. “I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.”

— Clive Owen

3. “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.”

— Clive Owen

4. “The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.”

— Clive Owen

5. “I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.”

— Clive Owen

6. “Without faith, without belief in something, what are we?”

— Clive Owen

7. “I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can’t sing – that is why.”

— Clive Owen

8. “I’m the git in the family.”

— Clive Owen

9. “Rudeness can make me angry.”

— Clive Owen

10. “I was very keen on playing a victim.”

— Clive Owen

11. “I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.”

— Clive Owen

12. “For me really good acting is about subtext.”

— Clive Owen

13. “I’m just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.”

— Clive Owen

14. “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.”

— Clive Owen

15. “I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don’t notice you.”

— Clive Owen

16. “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.”

— Clive Owen

17. “You won’t find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.”

— Clive Owen

18. “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.”

— Clive Owen

19. “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

20. “Something I don’t like seeing in other people is naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. That’s the way I look at that word – like you must be stepping on someone to get there. And I’ve never been comfortable with that.”

— Clive Owen

21. “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.”

— Clive Owen

22. “I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.”

— Clive Owen

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

— Clive Owen

24. “I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don’t need to be hit on the head.”

— Clive Owen

25. “Jewelery isn’t really my thing, but I’ve always got my eye on people’s watches.”

— Clive Owen

26. “As far as career goes, make sure you’re in it for the right reasons – and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.”

— Clive Owen

27. “I had to ride a horse once. In ‘King Arthur.’ I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.”

— Clive Owen

28. “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

29. “I would never give anybody any advice about anything.”

— Clive Owen

30. “There’s something to play if there’s conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that’s where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you’ve got something to play, there’s layers to it.”

— Clive Owen

31. “Death frees the beast.”

— Clive Owen

32. “America’s been very, very good to me. I’ve been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I’ve done.”

— Clive Owen

33. “Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.”

— Clive Owen

34. “No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they’re in the story for ten seconds, I didn’t want you to just see them as this entity passing through that’s serving all of the other people.”

— Clive Owen

35. “I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.”

— Clive Owen

36. “There’s certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I’ve ended up.”

— Clive Owen

37. “I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It’s a family life, hanging with friends.”

— Clive Owen

38. “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.”

— Clive Owen

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

— Clive Owen

40. “I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.”

— Clive Owen

41. “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.”

— Clive Owen

42. “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.”

— Clive Owen

43. “I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren’t getting enough time to see their kids because life’s complications and hardships get in the way of those things.”

— Clive Owen

44. “It’s important to me that everyone is treated with respect.”

— Clive Owen

45. “I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don’t want to do too many.”

— Clive Owen

46. “The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That’s what I believe.”

— Clive Owen

47. “When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with that. Some of the finest acting I’ve ever come across has been for film.”

— Clive Owen

48. “Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.”

— Clive Owen

49. “I was at the birth of my two girls.”

— Clive Owen

50. “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