Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
GARY OLDMANMy big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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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 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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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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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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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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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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I’m not the best audience for that because I’m not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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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’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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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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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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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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