Top 30 Owen Wilson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another.”

— Owen Wilson

2. “You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.”

— Owen Wilson

3. “I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I’m selling? No. Do I know what I’m doing today? No. But I’m here, and I’m gonna give it my best shot.”

— Owen Wilson

4. “You can’t get too attached to any one shampoo. And conditioner, also.”

— Owen Wilson

5. “That’s the thing about friendship, it’s a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.”

— Owen Wilson

6. “I think of Terrence Malick’s movie Days of Heaven – one of Richard Gere’s first movies – you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.”

— Owen Wilson

7. “There’s something people find hilarious about dogs surfing and dancing and talking in the movies. I think it’s nice for people – I think it’s wish fulfillment – to see animals talking.”

— Owen Wilson

8. “Being in a bathtub with Jackie Chan, I don’t know, it has a way of bonding you I’ll tell you that. I don’t know if there are some weird undertones. It was like we had met in Los Angeles and we didn’t have that much to say to each other but, after that bathtub scene, we were great friends.”

— Owen Wilson

9. “I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.”

— Owen Wilson

10. “Maybe because I began as a writer, I have a good ear for dialogue, and maybe being an English major – and that I also read a lot as a kid – if I hear somebody say something that I think’s funny, or I find a situation or story, I’ll try to work that into the movie.”

— Owen Wilson

11. “It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don’t have the ability to laugh at something.”

— Owen Wilson

12. “I guess that’s the thing about Rome: It never changes.”

— Owen Wilson

13. “My mother photographed Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas, right before he passed away. He was actually the first artist whose work I collected. I just loved the photographs that my mom had done of Donald Judd and the installations in Marfa.”

— Owen Wilson

14. “Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who’s an art dealer and an artist himself – he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate – it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art.”

— Owen Wilson

15. “I think of myself as a doom person. I’m a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I’m the kind of optimist who deep down knows it’s not going to work.”

— Owen Wilson

16. “The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder – our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.”

— Owen Wilson

17. “I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.”

— Owen Wilson

18. “You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors – they’re the cool seniors.”

— Owen Wilson

19. “In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there’s one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.”

— Owen Wilson

20. “Maybe that’s why there’s an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it’s not like there’s a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.”

— Owen Wilson

21. “It’s not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.”

— Owen Wilson

22. “I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.”

— Owen Wilson

23. “Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.”

— Owen Wilson

24. “Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.”

— Owen Wilson

25. “It’s funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I’m usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.”

— Owen Wilson

26. “It isn’t so much that I choose the roles – I mean, I guess there’s a little bit of a selection process – but it’s more just what people offer you.”

— Owen Wilson

27. “We didn’t know what the reception was going to be when we walked out on the runway, but it felt like we were in a rock band. People started cheering. It was a nice way to begin Zoolander 2, with that kind of reception.”

— Owen Wilson

28. “I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.”

— Owen Wilson

29. “I became sort of an aficionado on the Valentino pajamas, because I like those so much.”

— Owen Wilson

30. “I think the way it works is that when you’re casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.”

— Owen Wilson

31. “I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.”

— Owen Wilson

32. “Because it’s me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.”

— Owen Wilson

33. “Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.”

— Owen Wilson

34. “I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me.”

— Owen Wilson