Clive Owen Quotes

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

I want to exercise all my muscles. I want to do plays. I want to do everything.

A lot of people get pigeonholed because it makes it easier to understand them - or assume you understand them. I think the way you break away from that is by constantly doing different jobs.

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

I really don't look at myself as just one thing. I'm kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am.

I don't see myself as a person who just does one thing. I understand that sometimes that might sound a bit unprofessional. But I disagree.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

I choose roles that are not me.

I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the time, so being an actor lets me live out the fantasy of living out 100,000 different lifetimes in one, without all of the repercussions.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person.

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

I always look so different in different roles, people are never quite sure. Which is the way I like it.

To experiment different kinds of roles always works well.

I'm an actor who believes in looking different in every film of mine.

What you are is what you are, and I don't think you should ever fight it. But as an actor, I feel lucky to play different parts.

Probably I look different in different get-ups, so I can pass off as an urban and rural character, hopefully with the same kind of conviction.

When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.