You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
GARY OLDMANI 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.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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I’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.
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Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don’t want to travel; I don’t want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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On set I keep myself to myself; I’d rather the director speak up. I’m not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
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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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I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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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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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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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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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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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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