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I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

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
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Make
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Dad
Girls
Movies
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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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If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing the narrative of film is different from that of a book.
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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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Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.
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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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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 always want my options to be open.
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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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No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.
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One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.
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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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Acting is all about likability.
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I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, Oh, we should film this. As opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.
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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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I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.
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I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.
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I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.
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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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It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.
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Rudeness can make me angry.
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