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After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

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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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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Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.
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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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I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.
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As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.
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Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape.
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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 do wear suits all the time.
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I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.
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I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
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Death frees the beast.
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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
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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 had to ride a horse once. In 'King Arthur.' I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.
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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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You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.
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I was very keen on playing a victim.
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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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