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Owen Wilson

(1968) Film Actor United States

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Owen Wilson is a film actor from the United States, best known for Killer Prince.

Quick Facts About Owen Wilson

Born: November 18, 1968
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Actor
Notable works: Killer Prince
Known for: Cars, Midnight in Paris, Starsky & Hutch, Night at the Museum

About Owen Wilson

Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor and screenwriter. He has frequently worked with filmmaker Wes Anderson, with whom he has shared writing and acting credits on the films Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)—the latter received 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), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2021).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Owen Wilson

That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

About friendship

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I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the…

Autobiography

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We didn't know what the reception was going to be when we walked out on the runway, but it felt like we…

Band

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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.

Brain

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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

Cinema

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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

Taken

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And James L. Brooks then sort of became our mentor, brought us out to Los Angeles and worked on the script for…

Able

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There's what is on screen and then for us, it's if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at…

Enjoy

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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…

Actors

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You can't get too attached to any one shampoo. And conditioner, also.

Shampoo

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Being in a bathtub with Jackie Chan, I don't know, it has a way of bonding you I'll tell you that. I…

Bathtubs

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

Attention

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I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.

Dallas

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The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems…

Accents

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My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major…

Austin

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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

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Anna Wintour has a reputation - she can be very intimidating - but that day [Valentino show] she was just smiling and…

Anna

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

Acting

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I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon [2000], and when we were working on the script, I thought that my…

Changed

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I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.

Dramatic

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James L.Brooks is just a very original person. So that was definitely the luckiest, most important thing that happened to me [meeting…

Becoming

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I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me.

Comfortable

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True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another.

Love

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I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds…

Comedy

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I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.

Asks

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