But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
GARY OLDMANSpeaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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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.
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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.
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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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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 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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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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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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The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I’ve got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they’d ask ‘And who’s the girl?’ Just one famous face isn’t enough any more.
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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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 got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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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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