Owen Wilson Biography

"Sometimes I stop and think how strange this all is. Something that began as a little idea in Austin, that Wes and I just walked around talking about between ourselves, has turned into all this." - on how his career has turned out.

"We spent so much time together that I can remember us being in our teens and our dad saying we should try to find some other friends because he thought we were our own lowest common denominator when we got together." - on his brothers

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

"I can't think of a movie I wish I'd acted in, but there are movies I wish I'd written."

"A buddy movie has to have that beat where one buddy doesn't show up. They hit the same beats as romantic comedies."

"At about the same age as I was interested in petrified wood, I was just fascinated with this dumb idea that we only used 10 percent of our brains. I was always thinking, Man, if I could only use 20..."

"The director made that decision not to use my butt...I don't know how to interpret that." - on having a body double for a scene in You, Me and Dupree (2006).