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.
GARY OLDMANI enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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Each role you play, they set a bar of challenges that you meet. And in the past, I’ve played characters that emotionally expressed themselves a bit more in a physical way. It was a joy, actually.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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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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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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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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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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I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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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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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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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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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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The thing a drama school can’t give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can’t be taught, and you have to have intuition. It’s an essential ingredient.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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