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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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I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.
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The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.
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I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.
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I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.
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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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I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.
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For me, London is and always will be home.
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You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.
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I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.
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I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about.
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I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.
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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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Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.
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The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
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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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Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.
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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
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Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
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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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Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape.
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