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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.

Gary Oldman

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 OLDMAN

Actor Enough Goodness Greatness Yourself
I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
GARY OLDMAN

Capability Lying Myself Terrible
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Death Dedication Father Head Himself I Love You Issues Movie Regret
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
GARY OLDMAN

Goodness Play See Yourself
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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Children Goodness Myself Reason
I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
GARY OLDMAN

Man Myself Play Rare Room Smart
I don’t think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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Comedy Hollywood Myself Name Pretty Romantic Thinking
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
GARY OLDMAN

Decay Museum Myself Reality Social
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.
GARY OLDMAN

British Contamination Feeling Myself Time
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles’ faces on it. It would be a collector’s item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
GARY OLDMAN

Collection Guitar Imagination Instrument Musician Old
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
GARY OLDMAN

Big Love Music Myself
I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can’t really move from it: it’s on buses, in stores, it’s everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
GARY OLDMAN

Aware Book Children Myself Small Store
I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
GARY OLDMAN

Character Enjoyment Loud Play Silence
As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.
GARY OLDMAN

Ability Attention Focus Lose Observation People
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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Angry Energy Mistake Passion
You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can’t shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
GARY OLDMAN

Impossible Old Play Point Weight Younger Yourself

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