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.
GARY OLDMANBeing a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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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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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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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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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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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 wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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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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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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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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I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
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People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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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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