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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.

Gary Oldman

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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Google Resource Type
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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Building Democracy Fair Jewel Mistake Nation Share World
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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Angry Energy Mistake Passion
I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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Calm Moments Myself Reminder Storm
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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Collection Guitar Imagination Instrument Musician Old
I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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Capability Lying Myself Terrible
We’re given a code to live our lives by. We don’t always follow it, but it’s still there.
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Code Follow Live Ourselves
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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Couple Honesty Money Myself Need Work
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
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 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.
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Children Deal Focus Greatness Myself Period Time
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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Career Control Ideas Mercy People Yourself
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 know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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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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British Contamination Feeling Myself Time
As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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Drama Myself Student

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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