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I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.

Gary Oldman

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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Children Deal Focus Greatness Myself Period Time
Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
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Actor Movie People Play Yourself
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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Collection Guitar Imagination Instrument Musician Old
I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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Children Comic Fan Huge Myself
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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Decay Museum Myself Reality Social
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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Code Follow Live Ourselves
I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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Capability Lying Myself Terrible
You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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Character Choice Color Friendship Yourself
How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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Forget Line Myself Remember Yourself
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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Impossible Old Play Point Weight Younger Yourself
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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Feeling Goodness Great Make Up Work Yourself
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
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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Big Love Music Myself
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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Dreams Myself Preference Wish
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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Movie Myself Obligation Promote Public
As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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Drama Myself Student
To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.
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Character Job Place Profession Requirement Yourself
There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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Chase Effort Inspirational Opportunity Role Time Yourself
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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Change Family Interest Life Myself Old Style Travel
I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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Beautiful Body Couple Funny Myself Sex
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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Classical Music Myself Obsession Play
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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Death Dedication Father Head Himself I Love You Issues Movie Regret
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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Comedy Hollywood Myself Name Pretty Romantic Thinking
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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Goodness Play See Yourself
What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Business Myself People Thinking
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
At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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Music Oscar Race Vote Yourself

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