The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank Sinatra. Google is a great resource.
GARY OLDMANI’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.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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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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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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I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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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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Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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