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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

Gary Oldman

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
GARY OLDMAN

Classical Music Myself Obsession Play
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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Goodness Play See Yourself
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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Change Company Creation Enough Face Famous Industry Movie Myself
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Feeling Goodness Great Make Up Work Yourself
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you’re really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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Actor Behavior Change Human Play Truth Vehicle
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
To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.
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Bad Honesty Man Myself Play
I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That’s the magic of it to me.
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Breathe Gate Magic Movie Myself Projection Way
Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
GARY OLDMAN

Play Writing Yourself
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
How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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Forget Line Myself Remember Yourself
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Drama Essential Intuition School Sharp Yourself
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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Bar Challenge Emotional Expression Happiness Joy Myself Play Role
What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Business Myself People Thinking
I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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Calm Moments Myself Reminder Storm
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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Angry Class Family Growth Work Yourself

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