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" I am comfortable around babies and children because I have two of my own. "
Clive Owen
My Own
Own
Children
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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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Parenting
You
Perfect
" I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie. "
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Think
Watch
Film
" My wife needs her freedom just like me. "
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Me
Freedom
Her
" 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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Fight
Most
Remember
" Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd. "
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Being
Family
Home
" I come from a very working-class background. "
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Very
Working-Class
Come
" When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear. "
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Clear
Action
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" I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can. "
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Go
Explore
Want
" I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why. "
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Why
Sing
Karaoke
" I'm the git in the family. "
Clive Owen
Family
Git
" 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. "
Clive Owen
Because
Never
Me
" I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with. "
Clive Owen
Been
Scripts
People
" After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo. "
Clive Owen
Drama
Tour
School
" For me really good acting is about subtext. "
Clive Owen
Really
Subtext
Me
" I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human. "
Clive Owen
Whatever
More
I Am
" 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. "
Clive Owen
Journalist
Stupid
Too
" 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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Think
Belt
Film
" 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. "
Clive Owen
Travel
Time
Forget
" I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts. "
Clive Owen
Playing
Kinds
Parts
" When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up. "
Clive Owen
Idiot
Best
Up
" Action scenes are not that different from other scenes. "
Clive Owen
Action
Scenes
Other
" I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across. "
Clive Owen
Come
Think
I Think
" I always want my options to be open. "
Clive Owen
Options
Want
Always
" I'd like to do a film which is funny. "
Clive Owen
Like
Film
Funny
" I want to be in movies that stand the test of time. "
Clive Owen
Movies
Test
Stand
" I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about. "
Clive Owen
Friends
Actor
Worry
" I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script. "
Clive Owen
Done
People
True
" 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. "
Clive Owen
Drama
Play
Character
" I'm not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills. "
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Great
Cheap
Horror
" I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things. "
Clive Owen
Different
Doing
Things