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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.

Gary Oldman

I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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Man Myself Play Rare Room Smart
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
GARY OLDMAN

Decay Museum Myself Reality Social
Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
GARY OLDMAN

Actor Movie People Play Yourself
People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
GARY OLDMAN

Actor Different Imagination Offering People 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.
GARY OLDMAN

Death Dedication Father Head Himself I Love You Issues Movie Regret
I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
GARY OLDMAN

Fashion Myself Old Reality
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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Aware Book Children Myself Small Store
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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Bad Honesty Man Myself Play
I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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Crazy Man Myself Perception Play Weird
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you’re really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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Actor Behavior Change Human Play Truth Vehicle
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 OLDMAN

Google Resource Type
I still don’t have a publicist. If I’m in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I’ll do as much as I can.
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Movie Myself Obligation Promote Public
I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
GARY OLDMAN

Children Game Miracle Myself Praise
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 still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
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British Contamination Feeling Myself Time
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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