I still don’t have a publicist. If I’m in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I’ll do as much as I can.
GARY OLDMANPeople 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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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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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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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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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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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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We’re given a code to live our lives by. We don’t always follow it, but it’s still there.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles’ faces on it. It would be a collector’s item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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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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To be able to do this job in the first place you’ve got to have a bit of an ego.
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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’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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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.
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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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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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