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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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Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.
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I always want my options to be open.
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I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
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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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