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" Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches. "
Clive Owen
Watches
Always
Eye
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" My wife needs her freedom just like me. "
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" I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things. "
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" I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan. "
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" 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. "
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" I never wanted to be a movie star. "
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" I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort. "
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" Rudeness can make me angry. "
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" I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero. "
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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 want to be in movies that stand the test of time. "
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" One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open. "
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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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" 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 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. "
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Shaving
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" I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie. "
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Movie
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" I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other. "
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Bear
Partner
" I don't play video games. "
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Video
Video Games
Games
" I had to ride a horse once. In 'King Arthur.' I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work. "
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King
" 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 can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient. "
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" I'm not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills. "
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Cheap
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" Audiences can be very judgmental. "
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Very
Judgmental
Audiences
" As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun. "
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Me
Sun
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" I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role. "
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Kind
Role
Research
" 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. "
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Never
Me
" Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world. "
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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. "
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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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" As I get older, I've been having a better and better time. "
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