Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
GARY OLDMANI like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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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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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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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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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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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 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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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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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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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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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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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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Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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