Quotes by Owen Wilson

Owen Wilson

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

Fun

Term Paper

Writing

After Bottle Rocket, I started getting acting work. People started offering me roles in movies. It wasn’t something that I thought about as a kid growing up in Texas. Actually, maybe I would have thought of it as a possibility, but it seemed so crazily far-fetched to think that you could work in movies that I really didn’t ever quite imagine it. It was just lucky.

Growing Up

Kids

Thinking

And James L. Brooks then sort of became our mentor, brought us out to Los Angeles and worked on the script for a year with us. We learned so much working with him – just being able to spend time with him, the quality of his mind, the things he comes up with and says. I think Wes [Anderson] and I could go to dinner tonight and spend the whole dinner thinking and talking about things that Jim has said to us over the years.

Talking

Thinking

Years

Anna Wintour has a reputation – she can be very intimidating – but that day [Valentino show] she was just smiling and laughing. That was my first time meeting her, and she seemed like she was having a great time. Everybody was enjoying themselves.

Firsts

Laughing

Reputation

Australian cattle dogs, are not like Labradors, where they just like to just sit around by the fire and get petted. They’re working dogs, so they have a lot of energy, and they can drive you crazy.

Crazy

Dog

Fire

Because it’s me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.

Character

Interesting

Trying

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.

Great Friend

Los Angeles

Way

Film is definitely a director’s medium. They’re responsible for the look and everything, and you’re a part of that process as an actor, and you try to contribute to the story. But I think it might sound a little pretentious for me to say I think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as a creative person.

Artist

Creative

Thinking

Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

Attention

Comfort

Principles

I always think about Katharine Graham – she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the way her parents met. Her father was, I think, in New York just walking by on his way home and looked into a store and saw the lady that became his wife. It was just pure luck. And she said that it once again reminds her of the role that luck and chance play in our life. I really believe that, too.

Believe

Father

New York

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About Friendship

Accents

Actors

American Movie

Art

Artist

Attention

Beautiful

Believe

Body

Book

Bored

Brother

Care

Character

Cheer

Church

College

Comfort

Condom

Connections

Couple

Crazy

Creative

Dallas

Difficult Times

Dog

Dramatic

Drinking

Ducks

Dying

Enjoy

Espresso

Estates

Exotic

Father

Fear Of Failure

Fields

Fire

Firsts

Five

Fog

Fun

Girl

Giving

Great Friend

Growing Up

Guy

Hard Work

Having Sex

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Quotes by Owen Wilson

Owen Wilson

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

Anna Wintour has a reputation – she can be very intimidating – but that day [Valentino show] she was just smiling and laughing. That was my first time meeting her, and she seemed like she was having a great time. Everybody was enjoying themselves.

Australian cattle dogs, are not like Labradors, where they just like to just sit around by the fire and get petted. They’re working dogs, so they have a lot of energy, and they can drive you crazy.

Because it’s me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.

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.

Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

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