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I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

Clive Owen

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Clive Owen
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 3
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After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.
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I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.
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I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.
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After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.
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I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.
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I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.
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For me, London is and always will be home.
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Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
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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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If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.
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I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.
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For an actor, it's very important to get a clear idea of what a director wants, and their intention for what they want to get out of a scene and how they want to shoot it. Having that knowledge is really valuable, for an actor. It means you can deliver more.
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I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.
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It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
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I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.
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I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.
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I was very keen on playing a victim.
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I never aspired to be anything. What I've done is beyond my wildest.
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The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
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No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.
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