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.
GARY OLDMANI wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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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 know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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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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I still don’t have a publicist. If I’m in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I’ll do as much as I can.
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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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I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.
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It’s been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It’s the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.
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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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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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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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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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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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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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