At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
GARY OLDMANWhat other people think of me is none of my business.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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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 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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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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Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
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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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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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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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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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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.
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As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.
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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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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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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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To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.
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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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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’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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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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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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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.
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I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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