Clive Owen Quotes

• I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.

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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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  Tags in Character, Better

• I always want my options to be open.

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• I can’t remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven’t done most of 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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  Tags in People, Good, Everything, Acting

• I do wear suits all the time.

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• I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

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• I had to ride a horse once. In ‘King Arthur.’ I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.

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  Tags in Thing, Deal, Months

• I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren’t just straightforward and nice.

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• I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don’t notice you.

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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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  Tags in Home

• I just love playing good guys.

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  Tags in Good, Playing

• I think it’s dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

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  Tags in Dangerous, Career

• I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

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  Tags in Best, Think

• I was at the birth of my two girls.

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  Tags in Birth, Girls

• I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

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  Tags in Time, Stand, Test

• I was not a very fearful kid, really.

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  Tags in Really, Fearful

• I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.

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  Tags in Important, Movie

• 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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  Tags in People, Important, Different

• My wife needs her freedom just like me.

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  Tags in Freedom, Needs

Clive Owen (85)

Birth:	3rd October, 1964
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Producer

About

Clive Owen was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. He is an English actor who first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for playing the lead role in the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991. In 2005, he won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his appearance in the drama Closer. In 2012, he earned his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his role in Hemingway & Gellhorn. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1996, he appeared in his first major Hollywood film The Rich Man's Wife alongside Halle Berry before finding international acclaim in a Channel 4 film directed by Mike Hodges called Croupier.

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