But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
GARY OLDMANPolitical correctness has become a straightjacket.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.
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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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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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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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Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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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.
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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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Well, I needed the work – that’s the honest answer. I haven’t worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
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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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