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Clive Owen

(1964) Film Actor United Kingdom

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Clive Owen is a film actor from the United Kingdom, best known for The Bourne Identity (Full Screen Extended Edition).

Quick Facts About Clive Owen

Born: October 3, 1964
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Film Actor
Notable works: The Bourne Identity (Full Screen Extended Edition)

About Clive Owen

Clive Owen is an English actor. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for playing the lead role in the ITV series Chancer from 1990 to 1991. He received critical acclaim for his work in the film Close My Eyes (1991) before earning international attention for his performance as a struggling writer in Croupier (1998). In 2005, he won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in the drama Closer (2004).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Clive Owen

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

Basics

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I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

Fortunate

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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…

Hard

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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.

Challenges

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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…

America

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The medical operations are so challenging because they're so technical, as well. I assumed before we started that we would do the…

Challenges

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Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

Belfast

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Rudeness can make me angry.

Anger

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

Bigs

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The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.

Exhausted

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Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English…

Careers

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As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.

Time

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

Cinema

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Audiences can be very judgmental.

Audience

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When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with…

Acting

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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…

Believe

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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…

Cinema

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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…

Always

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Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

Action

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I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.

Acting

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I guess I'm not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving.…

Bathroom

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I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the…

Cant

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

Movie

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I'd love to do a Western.

Love

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There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling…

Character

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