The thing a drama school can’t give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can’t be taught, and you have to have intuition. It’s an essential ingredient.
GARY OLDMANReality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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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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I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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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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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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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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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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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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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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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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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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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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