At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
GARY OLDMANI did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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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.
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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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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
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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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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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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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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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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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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 wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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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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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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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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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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