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 OLDMANI like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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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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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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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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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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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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Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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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.
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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.
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