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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.
Clive Owen
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Clive Owen
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 3
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The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.
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Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.
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I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.
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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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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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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 was at the birth of my two girls.
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Good dialogue is very important.
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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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I don’t mind looking like I need a good wash and a good meal... Any actor who starts taking ‘sex symbol’ seriously or thinks of themselves as a sex symbol has got some serious problems.
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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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Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.
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I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
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I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.
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I'd like to do a film which is funny.
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The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.
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I've got an age that I do think of myself.
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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'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, Oh, we should film this. As opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.
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