Clive Owen Hates Being Famous
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Movies, Features,
"I never wanted to be a movie star. And I didn't become an actor to become famous. I genuinely didn't. It was always theatre for me. Chancer was a baptism of fire. It's very weird to go from obscurity to suddenly being in newspapers. When somebody is hot, everyone wants a piece of it. If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important."
The down-to-earth Closer star - who has worked with an impressive list of A-list leading ladies including Keira Knightley, Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman - maintains that he doesn't get star-struck by famous actors, only his sporting heroes: "I never think of meeting actors. I think of the times I've met footballers."
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Clive Owen Wants You to Believe Him
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Clive Owen is not a “professional bulls*****r.”
The British actor was forced to reconsider his career choices when an outspoken taxi driver in Scotland criticized his work as an actor and labeled him an expert liar.
“I got in a cab in Glasgow years ago, and this quite surly cabdriver says to me, ‘You’re that actor, aren’t you? You get paid to lie, don’t you? That’s what actors are, aren’t they? Professional bulls*****rs.’ It had quite an effect on me. I f***ing get paid to lie… I walked out of there and I spent a bit of time thinking about it,” Owen told Details magazine.
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