I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
GARY OLDMANPeople 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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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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I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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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.
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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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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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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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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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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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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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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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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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