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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
Girls
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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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When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.
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A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.
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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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I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
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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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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
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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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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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Good dialogue is very important.
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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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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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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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I was very keen on playing a victim.
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I was at the birth of my two girls.
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I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.
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