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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.

Clive Owen

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Clive Owen
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 3
Actor
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Coventry
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UK
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