Clive Owen Quotes

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

I've played quite a few good guys.

It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.

I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.

I like playing good guys.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

In my life, I'm just looking for that life of integrity that my father had. I have a good heart; I'm not a heartbreaker.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

I'm going to try to play some good guys for a while and just see how that is. It's hard to enjoy them as much as the bad guys, and the clothes are nowhere near as good. Good guys don't wear nice suits!

The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.

Never in my life did I steal a penny that didn't belong to me.

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.