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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

Gary Oldman

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.
GARY OLDMAN

Actor Different Imagination Offering People Yourself
How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
GARY OLDMAN

Forget Line Myself Remember Yourself
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Father Goodness Job Loss Myself Time
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Collection Guitar Imagination Instrument Musician Old
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Children Deal Focus Greatness Myself Period Time
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Actor Behavior Change Human Play Truth Vehicle
I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
GARY OLDMAN

Fashion Myself Old Reality
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Change Company Creation Enough Face Famous Industry Movie Myself
I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
GARY OLDMAN

Man Myself Play Rare Room Smart
I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
GARY OLDMAN

Beautiful Body Couple Funny Myself Sex
Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
GARY OLDMAN

Director Goodness Silence Time
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’.
GARY OLDMAN

Children Goodness Myself Reason
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Angry Class Family Growth Work 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.
GARY OLDMAN

Change Family Interest Life Myself Old Style Travel
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
GARY OLDMAN

Actor Enough Goodness Greatness Yourself
Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
GARY OLDMAN

Correct Jacket Political
You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it’s Gary Oldman crying; it’s not the character crying.
GARY OLDMAN

Break Character Cry Knowledge Prism Yourself
Well, I needed the work – that’s the honest answer. I haven’t worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
GARY OLDMAN

Couple Honesty Money Myself Need Work
We’re given a code to live our lives by. We don’t always follow it, but it’s still there.
GARY OLDMAN

Code Follow Live Ourselves
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it’s a constitution that’s the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it’s the most generous nation in the world.
GARY OLDMAN

Building Democracy Fair Jewel Mistake Nation Share World
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
GARY OLDMAN

Anonymous Enjoyment Live Myself Normal Ordinary
My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can’t beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
GARY OLDMAN

Fashion Food Goodness Morning Myself Old Tea
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.
GARY OLDMAN

Best Director Example Power Talk Work Young
At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
GARY OLDMAN

Music Oscar Race Vote Yourself
You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
GARY OLDMAN

Cloak Fall Hope Inspirational Yourself
You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
GARY OLDMAN

Character Choice Color Friendship Yourself
As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
GARY OLDMAN

Drama Myself Student

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