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.
GARY OLDMANI know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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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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I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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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 don’t think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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The great thing about having been in a lot of make-up, and stuff like that, is that when you’re working with someone who’s in it, and you’ve been there and done it, but you’re not in it anymore, you feel so good.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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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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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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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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