Owen Wilson Quotes .
Biography .
Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter.
He has had a long association with filmmaker Wes Anderson with whom he shared writing and acting credits for Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.
He has also appeared in Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2021).
Wilson also starred in the Woody Allen romantic comedy Midnight in Paris (2011) as unsatisfied screenwriter Gil Pender, a role which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Wilson is also known for his career as an onscreen comedian and member of the Frat Pack.
He starred in such comedies as Zoolander (2001), Starsky & Hutch (2004), Wedding Crashers (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), How Do You Know (2010), The Big Year (2011), and The Internship (2013).
He is also known for the family films Marley and Me (2008), and the Night at the Museum film series.
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“It’s not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.” –Owen Wilson
True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another.”–Owen Wilson
“What’s funny is that there’s a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don’t often hear them do their Australian, original accent.”–Owen Wilson
“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
“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
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“Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.”–Owen Wilson
“That’s the thing about friendship, it’s a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.”–Owen Wilson
“I became sort of an aficionado on the Valentino pajamas, because I like those so much.”— Owen Wilson
“Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities — their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.”–Owen Wilson
“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
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“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
“The world has enough aggression and escalation without us adding to it.””–Owen Wilson
“Why would a reviewer make the point of saying someone’s not a genius? Do you especially think I’m not a genius? You didn’t even have to think about it, did you?”–Owen Wilson
“Okay, here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed. One winner, forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast?”–Owen Wilson
“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
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“I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me.”— Owen Wilson
“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
“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
“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
“I guess that’s the thing about Rome: It never changes.”— Owen Wilson
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“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
“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
“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
“I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.”— Owen Wilson
“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
“I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.”— Owen Wilson
“I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.”— Owen Wilson
“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
“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
“I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.”— Owen Wilson
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“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
“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
“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
“I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.”— Owen Wilson
“Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.”— Owen Wilson
“Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.”— Owen Wilson
