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Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

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 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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I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
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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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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 do wear suits all the time.
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I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.
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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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Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.
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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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The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.
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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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One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are and where you are. There are parts for that age that you can bring things to.
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I'd like to do a film which is funny.
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I was not a very fearful kid, really.
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I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
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Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier 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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I was at the birth of my two girls.
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I would never give anybody any advice about anything.
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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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