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I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.
Clive Owen
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Clive Owen
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: October 3
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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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Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.
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Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.
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One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.
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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'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 do wear suits all the time.
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When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.
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If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing the narrative of film is different from that of a book.
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Good dialogue is very important.
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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 love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
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I've got an age that I do think of myself.
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I'd like to do a film which is funny.
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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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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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After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.
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America's been very, very good to me. I've been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I've done.
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I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.
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A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an acting point of view, it's easier to do my job, if I'm included in what the intentions are, for why people are doing what they're doing, especially with a director.
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