I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
GARY OLDMAN
I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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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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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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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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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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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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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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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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I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.
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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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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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