Clive Owen Quotes

I can't stand people who try too hard.

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.

If a show ever tries to be cool, then it's going to be doing something wrong.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Some people say the things I do are annoying because I'm intentionally trying too hard to be relatable, but I'm really not.

I can't stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

Too many actors are trying to be cool: they're trying to do it with their hair, trying to do it with the color, trying to do it with clothes, or some bullshit attitude you're either cool or you're not, that is my theory. If you have to try, it is too late.

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego.

I don't like Drake as a person. He's just fake to me.

I like real people. I like real things.

I don't have a lot of time for things that are deliberately, achingly cool.

I'm not trying to be anything other than the way I was born and raised.

If I had tried to adopt the tone and vibe of other serious journalists, that would have come across as insincere, forced, and false.

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

I'm real. I'm not polished.

When you're relaxed, the crowd can see it. They can feel it. They can tell when you're being real, or they can tell when you're forcing it.

Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.