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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.

Clive Owen

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Clive Owen
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 3
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There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.
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I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.
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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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Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.
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I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
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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'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'
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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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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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I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
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You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.
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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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I would never give anybody any advice about anything.
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A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
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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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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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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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The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.
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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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Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape.
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