People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
GARY OLDMANSpeaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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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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I’m not the best audience for that because I’m not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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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 got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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The script is your map of the world, isn’t it? And if someone knows that if it’s well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles’ faces on it. It would be a collector’s item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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On set I keep myself to myself; I’d rather the director speak up. I’m not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
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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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I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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