Clive Owen movie quotes

“- Donna Quintano: You are the angriest man in the world!
- Mr. Smith: If I remember right, you used to like it like that.”
Monica Bellucci - Donna Quintano
Clive Owen - Smith

“I don't understand a word you're going on about, but I know exactly what you're saying and I refuse to apologize.”

Clive Owen - Smith

- Arthur: Pelagius told me once: "There is no worse death than the end of hope".
- Guinevere: You and I are not the polite people that live in poems. We are blessed and cursed by our times.
Clive Owen - Arthur
Keira Knightley - Guinevere

“- Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
- Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.”
Jude Law - Dan
Clive Owen - Larry

“- Larry: Alice, tell me something true.
- Alice: Lying's the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off - but it's better if you do.”
Clive Owen - Larry
Natalie Portman - Alice

“The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.”
Clive Owen - Dalton Russell

“- Larry: You think because you don't love us, or desire us, or even like us, you think you've won.
- Alice: It's not a war.”

Clive Owen - Larry
Natalie Portman - Alice

“You don't know the first thing about love, because you don't understand compromise.”
Clive Owen - Larry

“I'm no martyr. I did it for the money. But it's not worth much if you can't face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency. I was stealing from a man who traded his away for a few dollars.”

Clive Owen - Dalton Russell

“- Detective Keith Frazier: Oh, please, do not say proposals... my girlfriend... she wants a proposal from me.
- Dalton Russell: You think you're too young to get married?
- Detective Keith Frazier: No, I'm not too young... too broke. Maybe I should rob a bank.
- Dalton Russell: Do you love each other?
- Detective Keith Frazier: Yeah, yeah, we...” (continue)(continue reading)
Denzel Washington - Detective Keith Frazier
Clive Owen - Dalton Russell

“The fire will burn us both. It'll kill us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire. My warrior woman.”
Clive Owen - Dwight

“- Ross: You didn't recognize the man who attacked you, did you?
- Jack Manfred: Of course I fucking recognized him.
- Ross: You did?
- Jack Manfred: I know a cheat when I see one... the man was a cheat.”
Tom Mannion - Ross
Clive Owen - Jack Manfred

“A good fight is never clean.”
Clive Owen - Larry

“Never trust the people who stand to profit, plain and simple. They're the bad guys.”
Clive Owen - Smith

“- Mr. Smith: I hate it when parents hit their children.
- Woman in Museum: Let go of my arm!
- Mr. Smith: Not until you stop hitting your kid.
- Woman in Museum: I will discipline my child as I see fit.
- Mr. Smith: How would you like it if I spank you?”
Clive Owen - Smith
Laura de Carteret - Woman in Museum

“She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade.”

Clive Owen - Dwight

“- Larry: What does your cunt taste like?
- Alice: Heaven.”
Clive Owen - Larry
Natalie Portman - Alice

“On some small level, I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.”
Clive Owen - Larry

“For men to be men, they must first all be equal.”
Clive Owen - Arthur

“- Dan: You think love is simple. You think the heart is like a diagram.
- Larry: Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself! You writer! You liar!”
Jude Law - Dan
Clive Owen - Larry

“How many times in battle have we snatched victory from the jaws of defeat? Outnumbered, outflanked, but still we triumph? With you at my side, we can do so again. Lancelot, we are knights. What other purpose do we serve if not for such a cause?”
Clive Owen - Arthur

“Without forgiveness we're savages.”
Clive Owen - Larry

“There's no use arguing with her, the ladies are their own enforcers.”
Clive Owen - Dwight

You know, when I was a doctor in London, no one ever said “medahani”. They don't thank you like they thank you here, ‘cause here they feel everything, straight from God. There's no drugs, no painkillers. It's the weirdest, purest thing, suffering. And when you've seen that kind of courage in a child... How could you ever want to do anything but... (continue)(continue reading)

Clive Owen - Nick Callahan

“Where to fight counts for a lot, but there's nothing like having your friends show up with lots of guns.”
Clive Owen - Dwight