Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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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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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I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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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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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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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’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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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 like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can’t really move from it: it’s on buses, in stores, it’s everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
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I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
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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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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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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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