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There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.
Clive Owen
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Clive Owen
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: October 3
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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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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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I do wear suits all the time.
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I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.
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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 think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
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Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.
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I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.
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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 was at the birth of my two girls.
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