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 whats important. – Clive Owen
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 weve really lost that in movies. – Clive Owen
A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when youve got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you dont have that hunger. – Clive Owen
I couldnt bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other. – Clive Owen
Well, Im in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. – Christopher Hitchens
Ive never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and Id be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldnt do anything for me. – Ornette Coleman