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I'd like to do a film which is funny.

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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I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
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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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If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing the narrative of film is different from that of a book.
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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'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.
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One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.
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I always want my options to be open.
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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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Something I don't like seeing in other people is naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. That's the way I look at that word - like you must be stepping on someone to get there. And I've never been comfortable with that.
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Rudeness can make me angry.
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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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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.
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There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.
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It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.
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Acting is all about likability.
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Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
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For an actor, it's very important to get a clear idea of what a director wants, and their intention for what they want to get out of a scene and how they want to shoot it. Having that knowledge is really valuable, for an actor. It means you can deliver more.
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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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I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.
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