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.
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
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
I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic. - Owen Wilson
I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.
You can't get too attached to any one shampoo. And conditioner, also. - Owen Wilson
You can't get too attached to any one shampoo. And conditioner, also.
I think for Wes [Anderson] and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood… - Owen Wilson
I think for Wes [Anderson] and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood…
It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining. - Owen Wilson
It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.
You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great… - Owen Wilson
You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great…
If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over. - Owen Wilson
If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.
My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to wo… - Owen Wilson
My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to wo…
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 … - Owen Wilson
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 …
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