You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
GARY OLDMANI enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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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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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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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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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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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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On set I keep myself to myself; I’d rather the director speak up. I’m not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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The script is your map of the world, isn’t it? And if someone knows that if it’s well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.
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