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Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

Clive Owen

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Clive Owen
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 3
Actor
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Coventry
England
UK
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I was not a very fearful kid, really.
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I don’t mind looking like I need a good wash and a good meal... Any actor who starts taking ‘sex symbol’ seriously or thinks of themselves as a sex symbol has got some serious problems.
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Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.
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There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.
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I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
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The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.
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I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
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