It’s been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It’s the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.
GARY OLDMANI wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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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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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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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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The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank Sinatra. Google is a great resource.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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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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I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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I’m not the best audience for that because I’m not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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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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