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" I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why. "
Clive Owen
Why
Sing
Karaoke
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" I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers. "
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" I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie. "
Clive Owen
Think
Watch
Film
" I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing. "
Clive Owen
Because
Working
Love
" Rudeness can make me angry. "
Clive Owen
Rudeness
Me
Make
" 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 treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting. "
Clive Owen
Character
Treat
You
" I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young. "
Clive Owen
Those
Who
I Feel
" I come from a very working-class background. "
Clive Owen
Very
Working-Class
Come
" I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don't notice you. "
Clive Owen
Way
People
You
" I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities. "
Clive Owen
Worry
Life
Look
" I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other. "
Clive Owen
Marriage
Bear
Partner
" You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies. "
Clive Owen
Movies
Think
You
" I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things. "
Clive Owen
Different
Doing
Things
" I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across. "
Clive Owen
Come
Think
I Think
" I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie. "
Clive Owen
Some
Movie
Times
" When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear. "
Clive Owen
Clear
Action
You
" I'd love to do a Western. "
Clive Owen
Love
Western
" Audiences can be very judgmental. "
Clive Owen
Very
Judgmental
Audiences
" I do get clocked. But it's not invasive to the point where it's upsetting. It doesn't encroach. "
Clive Owen
Get
Upsetting
Point
" I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role. "
Clive Owen
Kind
Role
Research
" I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient. "
Clive Owen
Say
Because
Never
" 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 don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy. "
Clive Owen
Depend
Because
Film
" I'm just a working actor. "
Clive Owen
Just
Working Actor
Working
" 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
" I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.' "
Clive Owen
Fan
Huge Fan
Huge
" There's not a big gun culture in England at all still. "
Clive Owen
Still
Culture
England
" 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. "
Clive Owen
Parenting
You
Perfect
" I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero. "
Clive Owen
Action
Think
Myself
" I guess I'm not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can't honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should. "
Clive Owen
Only
Shaving
Bathroom