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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.

Gary Oldman

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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Drama Essential Intuition School Sharp Yourself
I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.
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Director Freedom Myself Rare Talent Wonderful
I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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Capability Lying Myself Terrible
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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Children Hard Important Life Myself Sober
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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Bar Challenge Emotional Expression Happiness Joy Myself Play Role
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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Father Goodness Job Loss Myself Time
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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Goodness Play See Yourself
You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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Cloak Fall Hope Inspirational Yourself
I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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Calm Moments Myself Reminder Storm
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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Fashion Food Goodness Morning Myself Old Tea
At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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Music Oscar Race Vote Yourself
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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Death Dedication Father Head Himself I Love You Issues Movie Regret
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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Age Children Myself Right Thrill
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Anonymous Enjoyment Live Myself Normal Ordinary
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Angry Class Family Growth Work Yourself
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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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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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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