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Acting is all about likability.

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
Acting

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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 go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.
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I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
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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.
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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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Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.
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Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.
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I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.
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I've got an age that I do think of myself.
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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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For me, London is and always will be home.
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I was very keen on playing a victim.
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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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A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an acting point of view, it's easier to do my job, if I'm included in what the intentions are, for why people are doing what they're doing, especially with a director.
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Rudeness can make me angry.
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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'd like to do a film which is funny.
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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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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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You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.
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