I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
GARY OLDMANAs a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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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 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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It’s been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It’s the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.
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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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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can’t shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
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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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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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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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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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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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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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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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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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