The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I’ve got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they’d ask ‘And who’s the girl?’ Just one famous face isn’t enough any more.
GARY OLDMANSpeaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank Sinatra. Google is a great resource.
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I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it’s a constitution that’s the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it’s the most generous nation in the world.
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Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don’t want to travel; I don’t want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There’s that period in the late ’90s, the early 2000s, where I didn’t do a great deal.
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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.
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I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can’t really move from it: it’s on buses, in stores, it’s everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
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Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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