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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.

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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Lines
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I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
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I was at the birth of my two girls.
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It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.
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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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Kids before they're 7 or 8 are like little manic obsessives. They become completely hooked on things and they're slightly crazy.
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I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.
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I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.
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I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.
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I was not a very fearful kid, really.
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