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The follow are all personal quotes from Owen.
◊"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. What it really was was
that when we'd play off each other, it really was fun. We really
did become friends". - on the bathtub scene in Shanghai Noon
(2000).
◊"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."
◊"Yes, sometimes people get irritated, starting with my brother
Luke in BR. He would get pissed at me, like, 'Why don't you just
say the lines that you wrote?'" - on whether or not his
improvisational skills bother fellow actors
◊"Actually, to be honest, a shotgun wedding might be the way to
go for me. You can't stay at the party forever. At some point,
you have to take stock and ask yourself, 'What am I doing
here?'"
◊"To me, being cool is just the opposite of living. It's about
not getting too worked up about anything, by being 'Nyah, nyah,
nyah,' and no big deal. I can't stand that. It's such a jaded,
clichéd posture to take. I get real enthusiastic about stuff.
It's what I think is life-affirming."
◊(On what he enjoys most about being an actor) "I was reading
some Bob Dylan interview where he said, 'It beats nine-to-five.
It beat it yesterday, it beats it today, and it will beat it
tomorrow.' That's how I feel. I just thank God that I'm able to
make a living doing something that I can have a good time doing,
and be creative."
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