I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
GARY OLDMANTo be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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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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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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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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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That’s the magic of it to me.
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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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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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it’s Gary Oldman crying; it’s not the character crying.
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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 was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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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 was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they’re older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
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