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.
GARY OLDMANSpeaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it’s Gary Oldman crying; it’s not the character crying.
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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 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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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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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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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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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 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.
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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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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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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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People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they’re older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.
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