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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.

Gary Oldman

It’s been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It’s the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.
GARY OLDMAN

Alcohol Description Life Loathe Low Perfection Pride Self Esteem
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Drama Essential Intuition School Sharp Yourself
I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That’s the magic of it to me.
GARY OLDMAN

Breathe Gate Magic Movie Myself Projection Way
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
GARY OLDMAN

Goodness Play See Yourself
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
GARY OLDMAN

Interest Myself Preference
You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it’s Gary Oldman crying; it’s not the character crying.
GARY OLDMAN

Break Character Cry Knowledge Prism Yourself
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
GARY OLDMAN

Man Myself Physical Spiritually Strong Woman
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Bar Challenge Emotional Expression Happiness Joy Myself Play Role
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Director Fingers Hand Movie Myself
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
GARY OLDMAN

Angry Energy Mistake Passion
To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.
GARY OLDMAN

Bad Honesty Man Myself Play
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
Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
GARY OLDMAN

Director Goodness Silence Time
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Comedy Hollywood Myself Name Pretty Romantic Thinking
To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.
GARY OLDMAN

Character Job Place Profession Requirement Yourself
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
GARY OLDMAN

Classical Music Myself Obsession Play

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