Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you’re really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
GARY OLDMANThere are roles that you chase sometimes.
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To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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We’re given a code to live our lives by. We don’t always follow it, but it’s still there.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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The thing a drama school can’t give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can’t be taught, and you have to have intuition. It’s an essential ingredient.
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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 want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in ‘Batman 2’.
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Well, I needed the work – that’s the honest answer. I haven’t worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
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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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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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Each role you play, they set a bar of challenges that you meet. And in the past, I’ve played characters that emotionally expressed themselves a bit more in a physical way. It was a joy, actually.
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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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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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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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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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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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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.
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Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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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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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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