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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

I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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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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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.
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There’s that period in the late ’90s, the early 2000s, where I didn’t do a great deal.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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