So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
GARY OLDMANYou choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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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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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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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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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
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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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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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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 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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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 like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
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I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
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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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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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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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I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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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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Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can’t beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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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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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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