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.
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.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
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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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I’m rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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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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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it’s a constitution that’s the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it’s the most generous nation in the world.
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You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it’s Gary Oldman crying; it’s not the character crying.
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I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.
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The script is your map of the world, isn’t it? And if someone knows that if it’s well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to 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 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.
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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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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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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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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.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
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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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I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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