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I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.

Clive Owen

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Clive Owen
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 3
Actor
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A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
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I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
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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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I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.
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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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I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.
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I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.
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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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I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
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