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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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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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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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You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.
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If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.
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I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.
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Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.
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I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
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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 find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.
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I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
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I'd like to do a film which is funny.
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I do wear suits all the time.
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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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I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.
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I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about.
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I've got an age that I do think of myself.
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There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.
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I don’t mind looking like I need a good wash and a good meal... Any actor who starts taking ‘sex symbol’ seriously or thinks of themselves as a sex symbol has got some serious problems.
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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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I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.
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