1. “If someone doesn’t want me, I’m not going to hang around and win them over.” – Owen Wilson
2. “I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me.” – Owen Wilson
3. “Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.” – Owen Wilson
4. “Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.” – Owen Wilson
5. “That’s the thing about friendship, it’s a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.” – Owen Wilson
6. “Because it’s me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.” – Owen Wilson
7. “Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who’s an art dealer and an artist himself – he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate – it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art.” – Owen Wilson
8. “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
9. “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
10. “If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I’m a huge worrier.” – Owen Wilson
11. “That’s a beautiful word, ‘deal,’ and you’re talking to a dealer.” – Owen Wilson
12. “Anybody interested in grabbing a couple of burgers and hittin’ the cemetery?” – Owen Wilson
13. “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
14. “And at 100% humidity and 89 degrees, Little Hilo, Hawaii, is both the hottest and wettest spot in the nation. I guess that makes it the number-one destination for teenage boys, eh, Victoria?” – Owen Wilson
15. “I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.” – Owen Wilson
16. “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
17. “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
18. “I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.” – Owen Wilson
19. “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
20. “You can’t get too attached to any one shampoo. And conditioner, also.” – Owen Wilson
21. “ I’m telling you, you gotta help me! Don’t leave me here! I’m in hillbilly hell! My IQ’s dropping by the second! I’m becoming one of them!” – Owen Wilson
22. “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
23. “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
24. “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
25. “I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.” – Owen Wilson
26. “It’s not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.” – Owen Wilson
27. “All memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums had been erased by two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster.” – Owen Wilson
28. “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
29. “My mother photographed Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas, right before he passed away. He was actually the first artist whose work I collected. I just loved the photographs that my mom had done of Donald Judd and the installations in Marfa.” – Owen Wilson
30. “The world has enough aggression and escalation without us adding to it.” – Owen Wilson
31. “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
32. “I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.” – Owen Wilson
33. “You know you’re in love when you wear condoms while having sex with other women.” – Owen Wilson
34. “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
35. “Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.” – Owen Wilson
36. “Send someone to get my blue hat. I’m a little chilled. ” – Owen Wilson
37. “I became sort of an aficionado on the Valentino pajamas, because I like those so much.” – Owen Wilson
38. “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
39. “There’s what is on screen and then for us, it’s if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at work.” – Owen Wilson
40. “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
41. “I guess that’s the thing about Rome: It never changes.” – Owen Wilson
42. “I wasn’t like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut, I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree.” – Owen Wilson
43. “True love is your soul’s recognition of its counterpoint in another.” – Owen Wilson
44. “The way Woody Allen directs, there isn’t a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, “Just make it sound natural, and if you don’t like something, put it in your own words.” And [Woody Allen] gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.” – Owen Wilson
45. “Please, can we stop all this bickering? A man died here, a very rich man.” – Owen Wilson