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" I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts. "
Clive Owen
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" 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. "
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" The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question. "
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" I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across. "
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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. "
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" I'm just a working actor. "
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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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" I come from a very working-class background. "
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" As I get older, I've been having a better and better time. "
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" I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue. "
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" I would never give anybody any advice about anything. "
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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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" I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role. "
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" I don't think I've ever had a real fashion disaster. "
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" I don't play video games. "
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" I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making. "
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" I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie. "
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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 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. "
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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 have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant. "
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" You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film. "
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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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" 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. "
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" My wife needs her freedom just like me. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm the git in the family. "
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" After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year. "
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" I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice. "
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