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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.

Gary Oldman

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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Children Hard Important Life Myself Sober
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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Goodness Play See Yourself
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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Interest Myself Preference
I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in ‘Batman 2’.
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Children Goodness Myself Reason
The script is your map of the world, isn’t it? And if someone knows that if it’s well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.
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Need Scripture World Writing Yourself
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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Bad Family Goodness Justice Movie Myself Theme Value Wrong
Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
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Director Goodness Silence Time
What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Business Myself People Thinking
You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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Cloak Fall Hope Inspirational Yourself
How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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Forget Line Myself Remember Yourself
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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Actor Enough Goodness Greatness Yourself
My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can’t beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Fashion Food Goodness Morning Myself Old Tea
I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can’t really move from it: it’s on buses, in stores, it’s everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
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I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
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Fashion Myself Old Reality
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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Angry Energy Mistake Passion
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

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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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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