Clive Owen Quotes
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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'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'
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I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
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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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I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
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I just love playing good guys.
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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 love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
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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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For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.
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I don't play video games.
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I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.
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I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.
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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 with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.
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I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
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I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.
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Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.
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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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For me really good acting is about subtext.
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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.